We advocate the use of 'scoping models' because of their ability to incorporate complexity and promote social-learning in a participatory environment, while increasing the capacity of local actors to manage social-ecological complexity.
When reviewing these modelling approaches we reflect on a set of criteria including the ability of an approach (1) to capture feedbacks between social and environmental system, (2) to represent the sources of regime shifts, (3) to incorporate complexity aspects, and (4) to deal with regime shift identification.
Translating them into practice represents an unavoidable challenge – in which we are aided, fortunately, by the development of methodologies that incorporate complexity and uncertainty into the making and implementation of policies (e.g. adaptive management, ecosystem management, transition management; Christensen et al. 1996; Brugge and Raak 2007; Brock and Carpenter 2007).
For example, the interventions assessed in clinically-focussed reviews are, in general, less complex and diverse than those seen in areas incorporating social complexity or social process, such as communication and participation in health.
The fate of gene duplicates is complex and depends both on taxon [ 27] and function, incorporating protein complexity [ 62], dose sensitivity and 'connectivity' [ 60, 63, 64].
This leads to a different point of view in ACO and brings the possibility of incorporating the complexity of natural processes to the generation of ants.
This approach enables incorporating the complexity of regional velocity structures at an affordable computational cost and is ideal for testing teleseismic back-projection techniques at relatively high frequencies.
With an aim to improve vocational interest assessments geared toward the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas, we developed a new assessment by incorporating occupational complexity levels.
There have been repeated calls for a transdisciplinary approach to complex SESs that incorporates resilience, complexity science characterized by intricate feedback interactions, emergent processes, non-linear dynamics and uncertainty.
