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READINGS (*=REQUIRED)

*Hansen, J., Mki. Sato, P. Kharecha, G. Russell, D.W. Lea, and M. Siddall, 2007: Climate change and trace gases. Phil. Trans. Royal. Soc. A, 365, 1925-1954, doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2052.
*Stern Review on the economics of climate change, 2006. (executive summary)
*Is There Still Time to Avoid "Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference" with Global Climate? A Tribute to Charles David Keeling  (Hansen: commentary on slides presented in the lecture, only those slides presented are required)

*Parker, D. C., S. M. Manson, M. A. Janssen, M. J. Hoffmann, and P. Deadman. 2003. Multi-agent systems for the simulation of land-use and land-cover change: A review. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(2), 314-337. <Go to ISI>://000184143400004.

Agent-Based Computational Economics: A constructive approach to economic theory, 2006, Tesfatsion, Handbook of Computational Economics, Vol 2, 2006 (preprint).

Journal paper on Simile
http://www.simulistics.com/documents/SimilePaper.pdf
Simile model gallery
Simple examples of the sorts of models that can be made using Simile
http://www.simulistics.com/products/gallery/gallery.htm
Simile worked examples
The first 3 ecological examples (Ecosystem energy flow, Population dynamics, and Land-use change)
http://www.simulistics.com/examples/examples.htm
Brief note on declarative modelling
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/17/version/1 (open the PDF)
Presentation on MultiGuise, a Web 2.0 tool for presenting XML-represented models
http://www.itfutures.ed.ac.uk/robert_muetzelfeldt_synopsis.shtml
(and follow link to the presentation itself)
Paper on model transformation:
http://www.decmod.org/documents/model_transformation_rules.pdf

Balancing pollutant emissions and economic growth in a physically conservative world, Dave Crane, Ecological Economics, 16 (1996) 257-268
The OzEcco Embodied Energy Model of Australia's physical function: Model description and calibration, Barney Foran, David Crane, Franzi Poldy, Simon Phipp and Malcolm Slesser 1998
Powerful Choices: Options for Australia's Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy, Barney Foran and Dave Crane, 2006

 


















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