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News
The GLP Nodal Office will host a workshop on Land Market Modelling from 29th - 31st May 2009
The Aberdeen Global Land Project office on integration and
modeling and the US NSF-sponsored SLUCE 2 project will co-sponsor a small,
interactive workshop on agent-based land market models, organized by Dawn Parker,
Tatiana Filatova, and Eleanor Milne, to be held from 29-31 May 2009 at the Macaulay
Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. Workshop discussions will cover a range of issues
related to land market models, abstract and empirical and rural and urban, including
issues of integration between rural and urban market models. Participants will be
expected to read overview papers on ABMs of land markets and write a short position
paper prior to the workshop. Working from these materials, participants will identify
alternative existing approaches, best practices, strategies for model evaluation and
testing, open modeling challenges, and plans for infrastructure development.
The Nodal Office held its second workshop in July 2008
The Nodal Office held it's 2nd workshop from July 17-19th 2008 at The Burn, Edzell, Scotland. Fifteen scientists from nine different countries gathered to discuss 'Data and model integration for coupled models of land use change'. Further details, power point presentations and videos will be available soon from the Workshops page of this site .
GLP supports the FRESH seminar series
The GLP Nodal Office at Aberdeen will be hosting a seminar on 'Ecosystem services and sustainable communities' as part of the NERC sponsored Framing Ecosystem Services and Human Well being (FRESH) seminar series being organised by The University of Nottingham. The seminar at the Nodal Office in Aberdeen will be on October 27th, 28th and 29th 2008.
Poster and oral presentations at the IGBP Congress
The 4th IGBP Congress was held in Cape Town South Africa from May 5th - 9th. Professor Richard Aspinall from the GLP Nodal Office co-chaired a session on 'Modelling in coupled human-environmental systems'. Integrative models for land change science and market based instruments for integrated modelling'. In this session he also gave a presentation entitled 'From factors to processes: modelling change in coupled human-environmental land use systems'. Eleanor Milne and Richard Aspinall presented a poster in the 'Land System Change' session of the congress entitled 'The design of integrative models of social and environmental systems in land change science - report from a recent workshop'. You can download the poster from the Documents page of this site.
Sponsorship of the MASpace listserve
MASpace is an electronic mailing list devoted to Multi-Agent System Models of Spatial Human-Environment Interactions. The list aims to facilitate communication between researchers in multiple disciplines for discussion of spatial agent-based models of human-environment interactions. The Global land project nodal office on integration and modelling co-sponsors the list which is hosted by Indiana University. It is also co-sponsored by the GMU Center for Social Complexity, CIPEC.