Integrated modelling – Integration and Implementation Insights

Sharing integrated modelling practices – Part 2: How to use “patterns”?

January 18, 2020June 1, 2017

By Sondoss Elsawah and Joseph Guillaume

In part 1 of our blog posts on why use patterns, we argued for making unstated, tacit knowledge about integrated modelling practices explicit by identifying patterns, which link solutions to specific problems and their context. We emphasised the importance of differentiating the underlying concept of a pattern and a pattern artefact – the specific form in which the pattern is explicitly described.

Sharing integrated modelling practices – Part 1: Why use “patterns”?

June 19, 2020May 30, 2017

By Sondoss Elsawah and Joseph Guillaume

How can modellers share the tacit knowledge that accumulates over years of practice?

In this blog post we introduce the concept of patterns and make the case for why patterns are a good candidate for transmitting the ‘know-how’ knowledge about modelling practices. We address the question of how to use patterns in a second blog post.

Ten dimensions of integration: Guidelines for modellers

January 1, 2020March 8, 2016

By Serena Hamilton and Tony Jakeman

Why Integrated Assessment and Integrated Modelling? In our highly connected world environmental problems have social or economic causes and consequences, and decisions to assist one segment of a population can have negative repercussions on other parts of the population. It is broadly accepted that we require integrated, rather than piecemeal approaches to resolve environmental or other complex problems.