TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seppelt, Ralf
A1  - Mueller, Felix
A1  - Schroeder, Boris
A1  - Volk, Martin
T1  - Challenges of simulating complex environmental systems at the landscape scale : a controversial dialogue between two cups of espresso
N2  - With the advancement of computational systems and the development of model integration concepts, complexity of environmental model systems increased. In contrast to that, theory and knowledge about>environmental systems as well as the capability for environmental systems analyses remained, to a large extent, unchanged. As a consequence, model conceptualization, data gathering, and validation, have faced new challenges that hardly can be tackled by modellers alone. In this discourse-like review, we argue that modelling with reliable simulations of human-environmental interactions necessitate linking modelling and simulation research much stronger to science fields such as landscape ecology, community ecology, eco-hydrology, etc. It thus becomes more and more important to identify the adequate degree of complexity in environmental models (which is not only a technical or methodological question), to ensure data availability, and to test model performance. Even equally important, providing problem specific answers to environmental problems using simulation tools requires addressing end-user and stakeholder requirements during early stages of problem development. In doing so, we avoid modelling and simulation as an end of its own.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32029
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03043800
SN  - 0304-3800
ER  -