Towards global-scale behavioural models of land use change: Online Symposium

Location: Virtual
Dates: Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 December 2021, 15:00-17:00 Central European Time

Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8n_KTfIQUn6zRe0VIBi8P_loe3OeIR8iiKxAptGPhjKPLhw/viewform

Organisers: Dr Calum Brown, Prof. Tatiana Filatova, Dr Birgit Müller, Dr Derek Robinson, Prof. Mark Rounsevell, Prof. Maja Schlüter

This symposium will gather together an international group of researchers to tackle one of the most important challenges facing Earth System Science: the development of large-scale (national/continental to global) land-use models that are based on human behaviour, agency and decision-making processes. Participants will work together to support the development of such models, building on recent advances in theoretical and computational representations of human decision-making to determine which processes and relationships are most important, and how they can best be modelled. The workshop will introduce recent work within the behavioural modelling community, and develop specific collaborative efforts leading towards global-scale modelling. Participants are invited to present flash talks and ideas for group discussion, and to complete a brief pre-workshop survey. See the agenda below.