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Integrating Ecologic, Economic, and Social Sciences Using a Spatially Explicit, Landscape Dynamic Simulation System
Chris Stalling, RMRS Forestry Science Lab
Acknowledgement
• Jimmie Chew, RMRS
• Kirk Moeller, RMRS
• Anne Black, ALWRI
• Adam Liljeblad, ALWRI
Introduction
• Integration of knowledge– The interactions of the biophysical, social,
and economic landscape components
• Use of models for better understanding and communication
• Modeling with SIMPPLLE– A method– A tool developed specifically for integration
Ecologic Social
Economic
Theory
From theory to reality
Ecologic Social
Economic
Reality
How do we bring these seemingly divergent
perspectives together?• Modeling that helps us think about
the world by:– Representing interactions of socio-
economic values with biophysical environment
– Displaying trade-offs necessary for sustainability
– Communication using visualization and interactive, ‘real-time’ modeling
Designed to simulate complex landscape-scale interactions
between vegetation and other abiotic and biotic landscape components.
Developed to help managers make decisions that address ecosystem sustainability based on issues, concerns, and knowledge
Runs on site-specific empirical, mechanistic, local and expert-knowledge as logic
SIMPPLLE as the ecological core
SIMPPLLE, A Simple Methodology
• Basic rule of modeling is to help people better understand the world
• Acronym = modeling philosophy to keep things as simple as possible, add complexity only as needed
• Modeling system platform allows users to interact and communicate issues and concerns about landscapes
• www.fs.fed.us/rm/missoula/4151/SIMPPLLE
Users Decide How to Represent the Landscape
• What is the appropriate scale for issues?• Is the analysis to be irregular polygons
or grid-based?• Should time be in decades, years,
seasons?• Include vegetation, landforms, aquatics,
man-made structures, social values?• Should vegetation be dominant forest
species, multiple life forms, grass types?
SIMPPLLEthe ecological
core
FIA Plots
Climate Change ModelsNAU
Insect and Disease Research
VegetationFVS Model
Fire ModelsFMOs
Wildlife Models R1,GAP, Birdlife Int’l – Europe
Economic ModelsMAGIS-JFS, BEMRP
SPECTRUM, R1 Planning
FCCS PNW
Invasive Species MSU, MESA VERDE NP
Watershed Models USGS, CO Plateau
What are we missing?
Ecologic
Economic
SIMPPLLE
SocialSocial
A planning problem:People care about their landscape; yet most planning and analysis activities don’t explicitly acknowledge or incorporate these attachments.
A solution?Incorporate information about ‘attachment to place’ directly into our ecologic/economic models.
Ecologic Social
Economic
possible acceptable
feasible
cohesion
identity
Biophysical settings
activities
outcomes
Social settings
Conceptual framework
(c)
(a) (b)
Attachment to place
(d)
(e) PVT
Cover Type
Landform
Cover Type/Structural phase
Location
cohesion
identity
Biophysical settings
activities
outcomes
Social settings
Conceptual framework
(c)
(a) (b)
Attachment to place
(d)
(e) PVT
Cover Type
Landform
Cover Type/Structural phase
LocationPersonal
Community/Cultural
Family/Friends
Social & PhysicalAttachment
Social Outcomes
IndividualFamily/Inter-Social
Community SubjectiveObjective
Physical Associates
ManagementInfluenced
Physical
ActivityRelated
OwnershipRelated
DensityRelated
Social & PhysicalAttachment
IndividualFamily/
Inter-SocialCommunity
Social Outcomes Physical Associates
SubjectiveObjective
ManagementInfluenced
Physical
ActivityRelated
OwnershipRelated
DensityRelated
RelaxationNatural Inquiry
Physical
Economic
EmotionalEmployment
SubsistenceExercise
Social & PhysicalAttachment
Social Outcomes
IndividualFamily/Inter-Social
Community SubjectiveObjective
Physical Associates
ManagementInfluenced
Physical
ActivityRelated
OwnershipRelated
DensityRelated
Density RelatedUncrowdedOpen Space
Ownership RelatedWildernessAbundance of Rec. Opps.
Activity RelatedInterconnected Trail SystemNatural Sounds
Adapted from Firey, 1960
So What?