Human/Landscape Interaction Task Report back

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Human/Landscape Interaction Task Report back

• Freeman Cook
• Principal Research Scientist, Assoc Prof.
• August 2005

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Activities

• The activities undertaken in this task in the
  last 12 months
• Workshops.
• Exchange of information.
• Documents.
• Books.
• Suggestions for future projects.
• Where to From Here?

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Workshops

• Three small workshops were held during the year
• Development of a Generic Entity Framework for
  Human/Landscape Systems. Brisbane 28-29 January,
  2005 Use the Tab key to move the bullet
  further to the right
• Output template
• Outcome no agreed way to develop social
  algorithms

• Agent modelling using active modelling approach.
  12-13 February 2005.
• DIAS modelling template is possible
• Active modelling a is a useful method to iron out
  some of the logic
• Uncertainty and error propagation for CLW staff
  February 9th 2005.

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ROLE TEMPLATE
GLOBAL GROUP OBJECTIVES
INDIVIDUAL KNOWLEDGE
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Example of An Entity Created Using the Template
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FARM CONSULTANTS OBJECT Created with Template
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Exchange of Information

• Two activities during the year
• Sharepoint site set up
• Initially active but has waned
• Scaling our Science
• Two workshops were attended and outcomes are now
  flowing from these.

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Documents

• Template for model construction
• Paper to MODSIM05 on Uncertainty In Modelling
  Human-Landscape Interactions. Cook et al.
• Report (to be completed)
• Discussion paper on Urban/Rural interactions
• Died on Sharepoint

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Books

• Growth Fetish. Clive Hamilton (2)
• Uncertainty and Surprises Surprise in Complex
  Systems, Questions on Working with the
  Unexpected. R.R. McDaniel jr. and D.J. Driebe
  (eds).
• The Economy As an Evolving Complex System III.
  Current Perspectives and Future Directions.
  Lawrence E. Blume and Steven N. Durlauf

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Where to From Here?

• Uncertainty in agent based and dynamic modelling
  frameworks
• Proposal developed for emerging science within
  CLW
• Post-doc to work on this applied for within CLW
• Possible interaction task

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Where to From Here?

• Mathematical algorithms for social interactions
• Need to go beyond qualitative statements
• Memes are a possibility but not the social bio
  BS
• A challenge for both physical and social science

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Where to From Here?

• Effects of reduced energy (oil) inputs into rural
  landscapes
• My suggestion for a CSS/SEI topic
• The reduction in energy inputs could challenge
  the viability of rural communities

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Where to From Here?

• Template for DIAS coding (Art Langston and Geoff
  Carlin)
• Outcome from one of the workshops
• A skeleton program could be produced which would
  allow easier and fast code generation in DIAS

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Thank You

• Land and Water
• Name Freeman Cook
• Title Principal Research Scientist
• Phone (eg. 61 7 3114 2840)
• Email freeman.cook_at_csiro.au

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Burdekin, Queensland, case study - NETWORK
social
Blair Nancarrow CLW
Tom McShane, Canegrowers
economics
Alex Smagjl, Scott Heckbert, CSE
Angela Wardell-Johnson Murdoch Uni
Cane growers, Brisbane
Burdekin Canegrowers
financial
Cane growers, Burdekin
Freeman Cook Senthold Asseng, Mick Poole, Su
Xianfeng (CPI) Geoff Carlin (CLW), Peter
Campbell (ANL)
Kevin Mischke -Farmer
Alex Smagjl
politics
Canegrowers
bio-physical
Bill Venables, CMIS
Kumar Narayan, CLW, QNRM
Peter Thorburn, CSE
Lachlan Stewart, CLW, SunWater
Gunnar Kirchhof, Uni QLD
Mick Harcher (CLW) Scott Heckbert (CSE)