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Cellular automata provide the key to a dynamic modelling and simulation framework that integrates socio-economic with environmental models, and that operates at both micro and macro geographical scales. An application to the problem of forecasting the effect of climate change on a small island state suggests that such modelling techniques could help planners and policy makers design more effective policies — policies better tuned both to specific local needs and to overall socio-economic and environmental constraints.
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Engelen, G., White, R., Uljee, I. et al. Using cellular automata for integrated modelling of socio-environmental systems. Environ Monit Assess 34, 203–214 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00546036
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