Modelling Nature-based Solutions : Integrating Computational and Participatory Scenario Modelling for Environmental Management and Planning

This book joins two domains of knowledge together: modelling and environmental management. It provides readers with an integrated, but modularised, body of knowledge spanning these domains in a single, accessible form. A must-read for students, researchers and practitioners within environmental science and planning related subjects.

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are essential to ensure a sustainable society and healthy ecosystem over the coming decades. However, the systems to be managed are both broad and complex, requiring an integrated understanding of both bio-physical systems, such as soils and water, and economic and social systems, such as urban development and human behaviour. This edited book joins these domains of knowledge together from an applied perspective and considers how computer science can help. It takes a strategic look at the benefits and barriers to using modelling within environmental management and planning practice. It delves further by providing an in-depth comparative review of a wide range of models from a variety of scientific disciplines of interest with examples of their use for NBS. As such, this illustrated guide is designed to help students, researchers and practitioners navigate the huge range of modelling options available and develop the common understanding to work inter-disciplinarily.