Duration: Approximately one hour including discussion.
ISIS organizes three guest talks in each semester, covering its main research fields, i.e., systems sciences, innovation research and sustainability research.
There is no need to register for the “ISIS Science Talk”.
Bio-sketch
Veronika Gaube is senior researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology (University of Klagenfurt). She finished her Ph.D. in Social Ecology and has 10 years of experience in interdisciplinary research linking socio-economic and ecological approaches in sustainability science. She is experienced in developing integrated socio-ecological models. These models combine agent-based and material/substance stockflow modules to analyse the interactions between decisions of land users, land-use change, and socioecological flows of energy, materials or substances (e.g., C and N). In a range of projects, she developed integrated socio-ecological models in participatory processes, often in close collaboration with stakeholders. 2012 she was awarded the Elise Richter project (FWF) ALISEN (“Analyzing linkages
of socio-ecological nitrogen flows”) allowing her to advance her approach to long-term integrated modelling of land-use decisions and substance flows.
Abstract
In her talk, Veronika Gaube will present an integrated agent-based long-term socio-ecological model that aims to simulate the change of land use. The model endogenously represents (a) decisions of relevant actors, (b) spatially explicit changes in land use and land cover and (c) socioeconomic as well as ecological stocks and flows of substances like carbon and nitrogen. It explores possible future developments resulting from predicted changes in (a) external economic and political drivers such as food and energy prices, agricultural subsidies or various kinds of regulation, (b) external biophysical drivers such as changes in temperature, precipitation or N deposition and (c) internal social, political or economic choices such as preferences, cooperation between farmers etc. The model was designed in a three-year lasting participatory process. The modelled region Eisenwurzen is embedded in the context of “Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research” (LTSER) by integrating concepts and data from social sciences, humanities and natural sciences in its design, thereby facilitating integrated analysis of processes of society-nature interaction.