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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022

Modelling coupled human-environment complexity for the future of the biosphere: strengths, gaps and promising directions.

Isaiah Farahbakhsh, Chris T Bauch, Madhur Anand

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Self-organized institutions in evolutionary dynamical-systems games.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Health and equity implications of individual adaptation to air pollution in a changing climate.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  8. Multi-Scenario Simulation of Land Use and Landscape Ecological Risk Response Based on Planning Control.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  9. Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Isaiah FarahbakhshSchool of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0833-4174
Chris T BauchDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6214-6601
Madhur AnandSchool of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2425-4502

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans and the environment form a single complex system where humans not only influence ecosystems but also react to them. Despite this, there are far fewer coupled human-environment system (CHES) mathematical models than models of uncoupled ecosystems. We argue that these coupled models are essential to understand the impacts of social interventions and their potential to avoid catastrophic environmental events and support sustainable trajectories on multi-decadal timescales. A brief history of CHES modelling is presented, followed by a review spanning recent CHES models of systems including forests and land use, coral reefs and fishing and climate change mitigation. The ability of CHES modelling to capture dynamic two-way feedback confers advantages, such as the ability to represent ecosystem dynamics more realistically at longer timescales, and allowing insights that cannot be generated using ecological models. We discuss examples of such key insights from recent research. However, this strength brings with it challenges of model complexity and tractability, and the need for appropriate data to parameterize and validate CHES models. Finally, we suggest opportunities for CHES models to improve human-environment sustainability in future research spanning topics such as natural disturbances, social structure, social media data, model discovery and early warning signals. This article is part of the theme issue 'Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years'.

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Coral ReefsEcosystemClimate ChangeConservation of Natural ResourcesForestsHumansModels, Theoreticalcoupled human–environment systemsregime shiftssocial learningsocial normssocio-ecological systems

Identifiers

PMID35757879
PMCPMC9234813

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