Agent-based modelling and GIS: applications to land use change and environmental modelling
Presenter Bio: Scott Heckbert is an environmental economist at Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, and adjunct professor at University of British Columbia. Scott's research applies environmental economics using simulation modelling of social-ecological systems. Research topics include ecosystem services assessments, economics of greenhouse gas mitigation, design of market-based instruments for environmental management, modelling the rise and fall of ancient societies, and simulating water quality and biodiversity under land use change. Scott develops spatially-explicit simulation models using agent-based models, cellular automata and network models of people and the environment.