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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-809-2019
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Societal breakdown as an emergent property of large-scale behavioural models of land use change
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Bumsuk Seo
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Mark Rounsevell
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Kreuzeckbahnstraße 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, UK
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Short summary
Concerns are growing that human activity will lead to social and environmental breakdown, but it is hard to anticipate when and where such breakdowns might occur. We developed a new model of land management decisions in Europe to explore possible future changes and found that decision-making that takes into account social and environmental conditions can produce unexpected outcomes that include societal breakdown in challenging conditions.
Concerns are growing that human activity will lead to social and environmental breakdown, but it...
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