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Using cellular automata for integrated modelling of socio-environmental systems

JournalEnvironmental Monitoring and Assessment
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
ISSN0167-6369 (Print) 1573-2959 (Online)
IssueVolume 34, Number 2 / January, 1995
DOI10.1007/BF00546036
Pages203-214
Subject CollectionEarth and Environmental Science
SpringerLink DateTuesday, December 07, 2004

Guy Engelen1, Roger White2, Inge Uljee1 and Paul Drazan1

(1) RIKS Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, P.O. Box 463, 6200 AL Maastricht, The Netherlands
(2) Memorial University of Newfoundland, A1B 3X9 St. John's, NF, Canada
Abstract Cellular automata provide the key to a dynamic modelling and simulation framework that integrates socio-economic with environmental models, and that operates at both micro and macro geographical scales.
An application to the problem of forecasting the effect of climate change on a small island state suggests that such modelling techniques could help planners and policy makers design more effective policies — policies better tuned both to specific local needs and to overall socio-economic and environmental constraints.
Paper presented at the ldquoWorkshop on GIS Applications in Coastal Zone Management Of Small Island Statesrdquo, Barbados, April 20–22, 1994. RIKS publication 905000/94100, April 1994.


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