Claes Andersson

• Pre-prototype modelling tool developed by Claes Andersson for the GSD Project

Henri Berestycki

• Presentation explaining the work and projects of the Centre d’Analyse et Mathématique Sociales

Bert DeVries

• Networks that optimize a trade-off between efficiency and dynamical resilience
  (co-authored with Markus Brede)


• An MSc thesis produced by Chris Roorda, a student of Bert de Vries, on a simple economy-energy-climate model to explore long-term feedbacks:
  The SUSCLIME model: Exploring adjustment of behaviour to climate change and resource depletion
  
  
• Scenarios are a useful way of exploring our increasing complex world, particulaly the climate-energy issue. Science should offer novel, integrated ways to deal with the sustainable management in social-ecological systems or human-environment systems. Simulation and visualisation methods, such as gaming experiments, must be used to explore situations which in turn will improve the interface between scientific insights and uncertainties, on the one hand, and the policy makers and public on the other

  Scenarios: Guidance for an Uncertain and Complex World?

   

• Interacting withcomplex systems: models and games for a sustainable economy.

Ralph Dum, EU Scientific Officer

• There was a considerable interest in seeing how a complex systems approach could be used to improve our understanding when it comes to setting policy.
  Presentation

Klaus Hasselmann

• Talked specifically about policy for climate change, taking into account the key socio-economic aspects
  Application of System Dynamics to Climate Policy Assessment

• 'A Parametrized Multi-Actor Model of Technologically Driven Growth - with Application to Climate Change'
  Klaus Hasselmann, Carlo Jaeger, Dmitry Kovalevsky

• Simulating human behavior in macroeconomic models applied to climate change

• The Stern Review and the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Implications for Interaction between Policymakers and Climate Experts
  Klaus Hasselmann and Terry Barker

• What to do? Does science have a role?

Lord Julian Hunt

• Talked on how a systems approach is extremely useful when modelling problems that involve networks of groups which may be operating at different scales but interact at certain points. Policy makers need to have models, and indeed simulations of results of such models, at their fingertips in order to be able to make crucial decisions often in a very short time frame

  Systems Approaches for Critical Decisions

Jean-Pierre Nadal

• Viktoriya Semeshenko, Mirta B. Gordon and Jean-Pierre Nadal

Collective states in social systems with interacting learning agents

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 387, Issues 19-20, August 2008, Pages 4903-4916

• Mirta B. Gordon, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Denis Phan and Viktoriya Semeshenko

Discrete Choices under Social Influence: Generic Properties to appear in Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS)

• Y.P. Ma, S. Mignot, S. Gonçalves, J.-P. Nadal and M. B. Gordon

Cycles of cooperation and free-riding in social systems

working paper hal-00349642, January 2009.

• L. Gauvin, J. Vannimenus and J.-P. Nadal

Phase diagram of a Schelling segregation model

working paper arXiv:0903.4694, March 2009

Global System Dynamics and Policies is a project funded by the Future & Emerging Technologies division of the European Commission. The project began in May 2008, and will continue until April 2010