title: Using cellular automata for integrated modelling of socio-environmental systems.
abstract: Cellular automata provide the key to a dynamic modelling and simulation framework that integrates socio-economic with environmental models, and that operates at both micro and macro geographical scales. An application to the problem of forecasting the effect of climate change on a small island state suggests that such modelling techniques could help planners and policy makers design more effective policies - policies better tuned both to specific local needs and to overall socio-economic and environmental constraints.
authors.affiliation: RIKS Research Institute for Knowledge Systems, P.O. Box 463, 6200 AL, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Engelen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Uljee
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Drazan