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ITS1.3/HS12.3 | Adaptive Human System Responses to Change - Advances in Multi-Sector Modelling and Analysis
EDI
Adaptive Human System Responses to Change - Advances in Multi-Sector Modelling and Analysis
Convener: Christian KlassertECSECS | Co-conveners: Jim Yoon, Julien Harou, Mansi Nagpal
Societal challenges such as adapting to climate change, transforming energy systems towards renewables, or achieving the Sustainable Development Goals require dynamic transition pathways across multiple sectors (water, transport, energy, etc.). The role of individual and collective human agency is increasingly recognized as a prominent and arguably paramount determinant in shaping the behavior, trajectory, and vulnerability along these pathways. Yet, the representation of human decision making in multi-sector and other coupled human and natural systems models is often highly abstracted and simplistic. Many integrated energy-water-land models, for example, assume human resource demands that are fixed relative to exogenous drivers such as population or technology input and that are uniform across demographic characteristics. Additionally, multi-sector models tend to ignore or largely abstract institutional dynamics in resource systems, commonly adopting rules that implicitly presume centralized, non-adaptive management of resources and infrastructure.
This session seeks to address these limitations, providing a forum for inter- and transdisciplinary exchange around the representation of human actors and action, emerging modeling approaches, and new insights across a wide range of MSD challenges. We further aim to connect European research efforts with the U.S.-based MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) community of practice, widely inviting research efforts on modeling human adaptation within a multi-sector context, across methodologies (e.g., agent-based, economic, optimization, etc.) and domains (water, energy, transport, etc.).