Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113963 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 66.2015
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Human economies and ecosystems form a coupled system coevolving in time and space, since human economies use ecosystems services and at the same time affect ecosystems through their production and consumption activities. The study of the interactions between human economies and ecosystems is fundamental for the efficient use of natural resources and the protection of the environment. This necessitates the development and use of models capable of tracing the main interactions, links and feedbacks. In developing this chapter, our objective was to focus on a segment of rapidly developing literature on coupled ecological/economic models with an emphasis on climate change. The advantage of this approach is that it introduces the reader to a very important current research topic, but it also allows, by using climate as the reference ecosystem, the exploration of new modeling approaches which are relevant and useful for the modeling of other types of coupled ecological/economic systems. These include modeling of deep structural uncertainty by using robust control methods, exploring modeling through cumulative carbon budgeting, studying spatial transport phenomena and spatial aspects in economic/ecological modelling.
Subjects: 
Coupled Ecological/Economic Models
Climate Change
Deep Uncertainty
Robust Control
Cumulative Carbon Budgeting
Energy Balance Climate Models
spatial Aspects in Ecological/Economic Modeling
JEL: 
Q20
Q40
Q54
Q57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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