SIM4NEXUS – Coupling a System Dynamic Model with Serious Gaming for Policy Analysis

8 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Barry Evans, Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, Janez Susnik, Antonio Trabucco, Simone Mereu, Xavier Domingo Albin, Chengzi Chew and Dragan Savic

Abstract

Water, land, food, energy, and climate are all interconnected, comprising a coherent system (the ‘Nexus’), dominated by complexity and feedback. The interactions between these different nexus components and their responses to climate change conditions are complicated as each feedback into the other. Consequently future policies should take into account the whole Nexus, when it comes to ascertain their long term impact on the system. This paper presents the conception of a System Dynamic Model (SDM) representing the Nexus, populating it with data from various sources (including output from specific thematic models covering different Nexus components), under different climate change and socioeconomic pathway scenarios. The SDM is then converted into R scripting to be included in the Knowledge Elicitation Engine (KEE) communicating with a Serious Game (SG). Models and games are built specifically for ten Case Studies, at regional, national, continental and global level. The SG is being developed for decision making for local stakeholders to study and get acquainted to long term impacts of different policies on the Nexus. In this paper the regional Case Study of Sardinia is presented as proof of concept.

Keyphrases: nexus, sdm, serious gaming, thematic

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 676-683.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/TswG
	https://doi.org/10.29007/w5vl

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:SIM4NEXUS_Coupling_System_Dynamic,
  author    = {Barry Evans and Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia and Janez Susnik and Antonio Trabucco and Simone Mereu and Xavier Domingo Albin and Chengzi Chew and Dragan Savic},
  title     = {SIM4NEXUS – Coupling a System Dynamic Model with Serious Gaming for Policy Analysis},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/TswG},
  doi       = {10.29007/w5vl},
  pages     = {676-683},
  year      = {2018}}

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