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Abstract
Expanding the development and use of socio-environmental system (SES) models is critical to solving urgent problems situated at the human-nature interface. Substantial progress is being made, but modeling challenges associated with a range of diverse issues remain. This is the sixth in a series of webcasts based on the 2020 article “Eight grand challenges in socio-environmental systems modelling” by Sondoss Elsawah and colleagues.
This webcast and panel discussion event will focus on the critical challenge of working with diverse stakeholders and scholars to co-develop models to address socio-environmental problems. Participatory modeling provides a powerful collaborative process for developing and testing solutions. The webcast will present the state of the art in participatory modeling, focusing on the fundamental challenges and promising research directions for meeting those obstacles. This event is intended for practitioners and scholars who commission, sponsor, or use SES models.
It will begin with a pre-recorded presentation by Dr Moira Zellner, followed by short talks from each panelist based on their experiences with participatory modeling; then, an open discussion will follow. Viewers may post questions and comments.
Time:
Mon. 26 Sept. 2022, 15:00 –16:30 (EDT UTC -4)
Mon. 26 Sept. 2022, 21:00 – 22:30 (CEST UTC +2)
Tues. 27 Sept. 2022, 05:00 – 06:30 (AEST UTC +10)
Document
Participatory Modeling Webinar Flyer.pdf
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Document
S-E Modeling Resources for 9-26 Webinar_1.pdf
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| Welcome | Margaret Palmer, Director, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, USA |
| Introduction | Sondoss Elsawah, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia |
| Presentation “Participatory Modeling to Address Socio-Environmental Problems” (20 mins.) |
Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science, Northeastern University |
| Panel Session (Responses 7 mins. per panelist) |
Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Professor, Michigan State University, USA Juan Castilla-Rho, Senior Lecturer, Canberra University, Australia Nagesh Kolagani, Professor, Centurion University of Technology and Management |
| Q&A (15 mins.) | Presenters and panelists respond to questions from the participants. |
| Open Discussion (10 mins.) |
Presenters
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Moira Zellner
Dr. Moira Zellner is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science; and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University.
Moira’s academic background lies at the intersection of Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Science, and Complexity. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in interdisciplinary projects examining how specific policy, technological and behavioral factors influence the emergence and impacts of a range of complex socio-ecological systems problems, where interaction...
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Laura Schmitt Olabisi
Dr. Laura Schmitt Olabisi is a Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. She is an ecologist and a participatory modeler, working directly with communities on the ground creating change in complex systems. Laura’s published research includes several articles and a co-edited book on the practice of participatory modeling, and community-engaged work on food systems and climate-resilient agricultural practices. She holds an Sc.B. from Brown University, and a doctoral degree from the State University of...
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Juan Castilla-Rho
Dr. Juan Castilla-Rho is a complex systems modeler working at the interface of stakeholder engagement and computational social science. He integrates expertise in behavioral modeling and decision science to create participatory processes and agent-based simulation models that improve the understanding and management of complexity in socio-technical and socio-environmental (S-E) systems. Ongoing projects focus on developing management flight simulators to enhance the ability of government agencies to identify robust solutions to vexing socio-hydrological dilemmas. Juan's innovative co-design...
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Nagesh Kolagani
Dr. Nagesh Kolagani is a software engineer by training, interested in simplifying and customizing open-source mobile and web GIS software, for use by farmers, school children, and NGO field staff in improving natural resource management in their villages. He studied engineering at Indian Institute Of Technology Madras (India) and in the United States. Subsequently, he worked for a few years in the United States as a software engineer, developing Windows-based consumer software products. He then returned to India and settled down in a village for about 14 years, practicing and promoting organic...
Presenters
Moira Zellner, Northeastern University
Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Michigan State University
Juan Castilla-Rho, University of Canberra
Nagesh Kolagani, Centurion University of Technology and Management
Time
Mon. 26 Sept. 2022, 15:00 –16:30 (EDT UTC -4)
Location
This is a virtual webinar.
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