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Samaneh Shokravi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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values in socio environmental modelling persuasion for action or excuse for inaction
Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014Co-Authors: Alexey Voinov, Ralf Seppel, Stefa Reis, Julia E M S Nabel, Samaneh ShokraviAbstract:Science in General and modelling in particular provide in-depth understanding of environmental processes and clearly demonstrate the present unsustainable use of resources on a global scale. The latest report by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for instance, shows that climate is changing and with a 95% certainty it is the humans have caused the change. The future climatic conditions are shown to be largely adversely affecting human wellbeing on this planet. Yet we see in numerous examples that societies are very slow in reacting to this rapid depletion of natural resources. What still seems lacking is the translation of scientific reports and the results of analysis and modelling into corrective actions. We argue that one of the reasons for this is the traditional workflow of environmental modelling, which starts with the purpose, the goal formulation, and ends with problem solutions or decision support tools. instead, modelling, and applied Science in General, has to enhance its scope beyond the problem solving stage, to do more on the problem definition and solution implementation phases. Modelling can be also used for identification of societal values and for setting purposes by appropriate communication of the modelling process and results. We believe this new approach for modelling can impact and bring the social values to the forefront of socio-environmental debate and hence turn scientific results into actions sooner rather than later. instead of being separated from the modelling process, the translation of results should be an intrinsic part of it. We discuss several challenges for recent socio-environmental modelling and conclude with ten propositions that modellers and scientists in General can follow to improve their communication with the society and produce results that can be understood and used to improve awareness and education and spur action.
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Values in socio-environmental modelling
Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014Co-Authors: Alexey Voinov, Julia E M S Nabel, Ralf Seppelt, Stefan Reis, Samaneh ShokraviAbstract:Science in General and modelling in particular provide in-depth understanding of environmental processes and clearly demonstrate the present unsustainable use of resources on a global scale. The latest report by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for instance, shows that climate is changing and with a 95% certainty it is the humans have caused the change. The future climatic conditions are shown to be largely adversely affecting human wellbeing on this planet. Yet we see in numerous examples that societies are very slow in reacting to this rapid depletion of natural resources. What still seems lacking is the translation of scientific reports and the results of analysis and modelling into corrective actions. We argue that one of the reasons for this is the traditional workflow of environmental modelling, which starts with the purpose, the goal formulation, and ends with problem solutions or decision support tools. instead, modelling, and applied Science in General, has to enhance its scope beyond the problem solving stage, to do more on the problem definition and solution implementation phases. Modelling can be also used for identification of societal values and for setting purposes by appropriate communication of the modelling process and results. We believe this new approach for modelling can impact and bring the social values to the forefront of socio-environmental debate and hence turn scientific results into actions sooner rather than later. instead of being separated from the modelling process, the translation of results should be an intrinsic part of it. We discuss several challenges for recent socio-environmental modelling and conclude with ten propositions that modellers and scientists in General can follow to improve their communication with the society and produce results that can be understood and used to improve awareness and education and spur action. Display Omitted Applied Science is not (and should not be) value neutral.Modelling results should interact with and inform societal values and influence them to instigate action.Scientists should engage in the decision-making process and help to formulate the right questions.Scientists should learn from marketing to promote conscious change of behaviours in the public.The modelling process is not accomplished until the models are actually used and action is produced.
Julia E M S Nabel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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values in socio environmental modelling persuasion for action or excuse for inaction
Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014Co-Authors: Alexey Voinov, Ralf Seppel, Stefa Reis, Julia E M S Nabel, Samaneh ShokraviAbstract:Science in General and modelling in particular provide in-depth understanding of environmental processes and clearly demonstrate the present unsustainable use of resources on a global scale. The latest report by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for instance, shows that climate is changing and with a 95% certainty it is the humans have caused the change. The future climatic conditions are shown to be largely adversely affecting human wellbeing on this planet. Yet we see in numerous examples that societies are very slow in reacting to this rapid depletion of natural resources. What still seems lacking is the translation of scientific reports and the results of analysis and modelling into corrective actions. We argue that one of the reasons for this is the traditional workflow of environmental modelling, which starts with the purpose, the goal formulation, and ends with problem solutions or decision support tools. instead, modelling, and applied Science in General, has to enhance its scope beyond the problem solving stage, to do more on the problem definition and solution implementation phases. Modelling can be also used for identification of societal values and for setting purposes by appropriate communication of the modelling process and results. We believe this new approach for modelling can impact and bring the social values to the forefront of socio-environmental debate and hence turn scientific results into actions sooner rather than later. instead of being separated from the modelling process, the translation of results should be an intrinsic part of it. We discuss several challenges for recent socio-environmental modelling and conclude with ten propositions that modellers and scientists in General can follow to improve their communication with the society and produce results that can be understood and used to improve awareness and education and spur action.
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Values in socio-environmental modelling
Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014Co-Authors: Alexey Voinov, Julia E M S Nabel, Ralf Seppelt, Stefan Reis, Samaneh ShokraviAbstract:Science in General and modelling in particular provide in-depth understanding of environmental processes and clearly demonstrate the present unsustainable use of resources on a global scale. The latest report by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for instance, shows that climate is changing and with a 95% certainty it is the humans have caused the change. The future climatic conditions are shown to be largely adversely affecting human wellbeing on this planet. Yet we see in numerous examples that societies are very slow in reacting to this rapid depletion of natural resources. What still seems lacking is the translation of scientific reports and the results of analysis and modelling into corrective actions. We argue that one of the reasons for this is the traditional workflow of environmental modelling, which starts with the purpose, the goal formulation, and ends with problem solutions or decision support tools. instead, modelling, and applied Science in General, has to enhance its scope beyond the problem solving stage, to do more on the problem definition and solution implementation phases. Modelling can be also used for identification of societal values and for setting purposes by appropriate communication of the modelling process and results. We believe this new approach for modelling can impact and bring the social values to the forefront of socio-environmental debate and hence turn scientific results into actions sooner rather than later. instead of being separated from the modelling process, the translation of results should be an intrinsic part of it. We discuss several challenges for recent socio-environmental modelling and conclude with ten propositions that modellers and scientists in General can follow to improve their communication with the society and produce results that can be understood and used to improve awareness and education and spur action. Display Omitted Applied Science is not (and should not be) value neutral.Modelling results should interact with and inform societal values and influence them to instigate action.Scientists should engage in the decision-making process and help to formulate the right questions.Scientists should learn from marketing to promote conscious change of behaviours in the public.The modelling process is not accomplished until the models are actually used and action is produced.
Alexey Voinov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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values in socio environmental modelling persuasion for action or excuse for inaction
Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014Co-Authors: Alexey Voinov, Ralf Seppel, Stefa Reis, Julia E M S Nabel, Samaneh ShokraviAbstract:Science in General and modelling in particular provide in-depth understanding of environmental processes and clearly demonstrate the present unsustainable use of resources on a global scale. The latest report by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for instance, shows that climate is changing and with a 95% certainty it is the humans have caused the change. The future climatic conditions are shown to be largely adversely affecting human wellbeing on this planet. Yet we see in numerous examples that societies are very slow in reacting to this rapid depletion of natural resources. What still seems lacking is the translation of scientific reports and the results of analysis and modelling into corrective actions. We argue that one of the reasons for this is the traditional workflow of environmental modelling, which starts with the purpose, the goal formulation, and ends with problem solutions or decision support tools. instead, modelling, and applied Science in General, has to enhance its scope beyond the problem solving stage, to do more on the problem definition and solution implementation phases. Modelling can be also used for identification of societal values and for setting purposes by appropriate communication of the modelling process and results. We believe this new approach for modelling can impact and bring the social values to the forefront of socio-environmental debate and hence turn scientific results into actions sooner rather than later. instead of being separated from the modelling process, the translation of results should be an intrinsic part of it. We discuss several challenges for recent socio-environmental modelling and conclude with ten propositions that modellers and scientists in General can follow to improve their communication with the society and produce results that can be understood and used to improve awareness and education and spur action.
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Values in socio-environmental modelling
Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014Co-Authors: Alexey Voinov, Julia E M S Nabel, Ralf Seppelt, Stefan Reis, Samaneh ShokraviAbstract:Science in General and modelling in particular provide in-depth understanding of environmental processes and clearly demonstrate the present unsustainable use of resources on a global scale. The latest report by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for instance, shows that climate is changing and with a 95% certainty it is the humans have caused the change. The future climatic conditions are shown to be largely adversely affecting human wellbeing on this planet. Yet we see in numerous examples that societies are very slow in reacting to this rapid depletion of natural resources. What still seems lacking is the translation of scientific reports and the results of analysis and modelling into corrective actions. We argue that one of the reasons for this is the traditional workflow of environmental modelling, which starts with the purpose, the goal formulation, and ends with problem solutions or decision support tools. instead, modelling, and applied Science in General, has to enhance its scope beyond the problem solving stage, to do more on the problem definition and solution implementation phases. Modelling can be also used for identification of societal values and for setting purposes by appropriate communication of the modelling process and results. We believe this new approach for modelling can impact and bring the social values to the forefront of socio-environmental debate and hence turn scientific results into actions sooner rather than later. instead of being separated from the modelling process, the translation of results should be an intrinsic part of it. We discuss several challenges for recent socio-environmental modelling and conclude with ten propositions that modellers and scientists in General can follow to improve their communication with the society and produce results that can be understood and used to improve awareness and education and spur action. Display Omitted Applied Science is not (and should not be) value neutral.Modelling results should interact with and inform societal values and influence them to instigate action.Scientists should engage in the decision-making process and help to formulate the right questions.Scientists should learn from marketing to promote conscious change of behaviours in the public.The modelling process is not accomplished until the models are actually used and action is produced.
Christopher L. Liner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A column on the history and culture of geophysics and Science in General
The Leading Edge, 2015Co-Authors: Christopher L. LinerAbstract:November 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of General relativity (GR). He published four papers on the subject in November 1915. Remarkable! The first two papers led to the field equations of GR, and the other two laid out vital consequences of the theory, including the anomalous precession of the perihelion of Mercury (unexplained since 1859) and the gravitational bending of light. The latter phenomenon was confirmed famously by Eddington's 1919 observation of a total solar eclipse and the shift of apparent position for stars, the light of which passed very near the sun. Einstein, already famous, became a household name — an early 20th-century superstar.
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A column on the history and culture of geophysics and Science in General
The Leading Edge, 2015Co-Authors: Christopher L. LinerAbstract:As I continue with duties as SEG President, I also enjoy looking back at adventures in the past, including my presentation of the SEG Distinguished instructor Short Course in 2012.
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A column on the history and culture of geophysics and Science in General
The Leading Edge, 2015Co-Authors: Christopher L. LinerAbstract:As I continue to explore exciting opportunities in 2015, I also enjoy looking back at past adventures, including my presentation of the SEG Distinguished instructor Short Course in 2012.
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Seismos: A column on the history and culture of geophysics and Science in General
The Leading Edge, 2015Co-Authors: Christopher L. LinerAbstract:This year, I serve as President of SEG, and I am beginning to see that things are going to be busy, but the “Seismos” column in The Leading Edge is mentioned by a surprising number of geophysicists I meet around the world. It would not do to have a whole year go by without “Seismos,” so I will be using flashbacks — ideas and information I have shared with a few people but not with the worldwide TLE readership.
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A column on the history and culture of geophysics and Science in General
The Leading Edge, 2012Co-Authors: Christopher L. LinerAbstract:As this is written in early July 2012, I have been around the world a couple of times delivering the SEG Distinguished instructor Short Course (DISC) titled Seismic Dispersion: A Somewhat Practical Guide to Frequency-dependent Phenomena. The year 2012 also marks exactly 20 years since my first Seismos column appeared in the pages of The Leading Edge. I have found sadly little time of late to write Seismos columns, what with the effort of writing the DISC book in 2010–2011, preparing slides in late 2011 and early 2012 and the actual travel this year to give the course. It is late in the year for a first column of 2012, but here it is.
Stefan Reis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Values in socio-environmental modelling
Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014Co-Authors: Alexey Voinov, Julia E M S Nabel, Ralf Seppelt, Stefan Reis, Samaneh ShokraviAbstract:Science in General and modelling in particular provide in-depth understanding of environmental processes and clearly demonstrate the present unsustainable use of resources on a global scale. The latest report by the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for instance, shows that climate is changing and with a 95% certainty it is the humans have caused the change. The future climatic conditions are shown to be largely adversely affecting human wellbeing on this planet. Yet we see in numerous examples that societies are very slow in reacting to this rapid depletion of natural resources. What still seems lacking is the translation of scientific reports and the results of analysis and modelling into corrective actions. We argue that one of the reasons for this is the traditional workflow of environmental modelling, which starts with the purpose, the goal formulation, and ends with problem solutions or decision support tools. instead, modelling, and applied Science in General, has to enhance its scope beyond the problem solving stage, to do more on the problem definition and solution implementation phases. Modelling can be also used for identification of societal values and for setting purposes by appropriate communication of the modelling process and results. We believe this new approach for modelling can impact and bring the social values to the forefront of socio-environmental debate and hence turn scientific results into actions sooner rather than later. instead of being separated from the modelling process, the translation of results should be an intrinsic part of it. We discuss several challenges for recent socio-environmental modelling and conclude with ten propositions that modellers and scientists in General can follow to improve their communication with the society and produce results that can be understood and used to improve awareness and education and spur action. Display Omitted Applied Science is not (and should not be) value neutral.Modelling results should interact with and inform societal values and influence them to instigate action.Scientists should engage in the decision-making process and help to formulate the right questions.Scientists should learn from marketing to promote conscious change of behaviours in the public.The modelling process is not accomplished until the models are actually used and action is produced.
