2002
Lugano, Switzerland
Scope
The science of Integrated
Modelling and Assessment (IMA) is in its infancy yet there are huge demands
for its application. The topic has been largely associated with impacts
in the area of global change. However this theme has special relevance
in many areas where humans and climate interacts with the environment,
such as environmental impact assessment of resource
use, and the assessment
of tradeoffs among stakeholders for the effects of water and land use decisions
in catchments and regions. The term integration relates to one of more
of several aspects including: the integration of disciplines, models, treatment
of issues, scales of
consideration, and stakeholder
concerns.
The aim of the congress
will be to assess the status of IMA with respect to these aspects and to
propose ways forward to improve the science and practice of IMA. This will
be sought through a judicious combination of discussions of theory and
analysis of case studies.
Themes
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Integrated assessment frameworks
and case studies, in particular, Integrated Water Assessment
and Integrated Urban Planning Assessment
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Multiobjective decision support
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Innovative software engineering
for model integration and re-use
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Advances in model approaches,
uncertainty modelling, and testing
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Scale issues in modelling
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Participatory Integrated
Modelling, stakeholder issues in modelling and decision support
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Environmental applications
of models and software
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Environmental fluid dynamics
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Applications of agent-based
modelling and simulation to environmental systems
Keynote
speakers
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DAVID SWAYNE (University
of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
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BRUCE BECK (University of
Georgia, USA)
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RODOLFO SONCINI-SESSA (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
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RALF DENZER (Saarland State University for Applied Sciences, Germany)
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MANEL POCH (Universitat de Girona, Catalonia, Spain)
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MICHAEL McALEER (University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Australia)
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ARMIN GRUNWALD (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany)
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JAN ROTMANS (University of Twente, the Netherlands)