Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Created: | 2019-07-03 14:43 |
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Institution: | Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences |
Description: | Workshop Theme
Land is a key limiting resource in many regions of the world, including the UK. Society depends on land resources for many purposes, including urban settlement, employment and transportation, as well as a host of benefits we get from nature (ecosystem services) - food, timber, energy, recreation, and aesthetic benefits. We require these land resources to be resilient to environmental change, and to meet increasing demands for not only housing, but also renewable energy, recreation and climate change mitigation. Land-use therefore connects many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In the UK, EU exit will require the introduction of many new policies connected to land-use (e.g. replacing the Common Agricultural Policy, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, etc) – implying an urgent need to develop better landscape decision tools. The one-month INI programme explores the mathematical and statistical challenges associated with making use of the latest observations to understand and project land-use changes. Questions to be addressed will include: what is the minimal useful representation of the landscape system? How do we robustly model the coupled human-environment system without assuming that people act as perfectly rational economic agents? Where are the non-linearities and sensitivities of the system, and how could these be used to produce transformative changes in land-use? How do we reconcile scale disconnects between different elements of human-environment systems? This three-day workshop will open the INI research programme, focusing on reviewing the state-of-the-art in modelling land systems and identifying key knowledge gaps where collaboration between different environmental, mathematical and social science disciplines may lead to new insights, methods and tools. The first day of the workshop will be open to stakeholders to set the scene on current decision-making approaches and to define policy-relevant areas where advances in the state-of-the-art would be particularly valuable. Participants in the workshop will include a highly interdisciplinary mix of both academic and non-academic researchers and stakeholders working on land-related research and policy questions. These will include (but not be limited to) participants interested in agriculture, forestry, water resources and biodiversity, as well as mathematicians, statisticians and computer scientists expert in system modelling, uncertainty quantification and decision making who are also interested in these wide ranging applied questions. The workshop programme will be available soon. Days 2 and 3 of the workshop will consist of both talks and panel discussions covering the following topics: "Decision-making in the face of uncertainty" Modelling social/human processes in landscapes Model coupling Spatial/temporal scaling Non-linearities and tipping points Benchmarking, calibration and uncertainty (including the role of model emulation) |
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Decision-making under uncertainty: Using subjective probabilistic judgements for decision support in pollinator...
Barons, M
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 12:10 to 12:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Recent scoping studies in evidence based decision making against complex backgrounds
Dent, C
Friday 5th July 2019 - 11:50 to 12:10
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 9 Jul 2019
Scaling Challenges in Hydrology and Applications to Water Resources and Food Security
Sheffield, J
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 10:00 to 10:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Weakest-link control of invasive species: Impacts of memory, bounded rationality and network structure in repeated...
Kleczkowski, A
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 15:00 to 15:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Decision making in the face of uncertainty: improving the evidence base to support landscape decisions
Stewart, G
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 11:50 to 12:10
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Issues of scale and uncertainty in landscape scale data products
Marchant, B
Friday 5th July 2019 - 12:10 to 12:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 9 Jul 2019
Middleware to Support Model Coupling in Landscape Decision Making
Blair, G
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 17:10 to 17:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Model coupling in land system science
Rounsevell, M
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 16:50 to 17:10
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Nonlinearities, tipping points and regime shifts
Ashwin, P
Friday 5th July 2019 - 10:00 to 10:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 9 Jul 2019
Panel discussion on “Benchmarking, calibration and uncertainty"
Friday 5th July 2019 - 12:30 to 13:00
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 9 Jul 2019
Panel discussion on “Decision-making in the face of uncertainty”
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 14:00 to 14:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Panel discussion on “Modelling social/human processes in landscapes”
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 16:00 to 16:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Panel discussion on “Non-linearities”
Friday 5th July 2019 - 10:30 to 11:00
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 9 Jul 2019
Panel discussion on “Spatial/temporal scaling in landscape modelling”
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 11:00 to 11:30
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Revealing the complex dynamics of real landscape systems
Dearing, J
Friday 5th July 2019 - 09:30 to 10:00
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 9 Jul 2019
Scalable Uncertainty Quantification for calibrating spatio-temporal models
Williamson, D
Friday 5th July 2019 - 11:30 to 11:50
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Tue 9 Jul 2019
Scaling populations and communities
Kunin, B
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 09:30 to 10:00
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
Smart Landscapes
Wynn, H
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 11:30 to 11:50
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019
The need (and opportunity) for improved modelling of land use decision-making
Brown, C
Thursday 4th July 2019 - 14:30 to 15:00
Collection: Current status and key questions in Landscape Decision making
Institution: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Created: Fri 5 Jul 2019