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Kelly B. Vache

The Rio Grande/Río Bravo Socio-Environmental geodatabase synthesizes a broad array of existing geospatial data sets on the social and environmental characteristics of the basin. In addition to traditional biophysical and socio-political data sets (e.g., stream network, political jurisdictions boundaries, land use and land cover), the geodatabase provides the spatial domain for a typology of institutions making decisions about water and land. The produced geodatabase aggregates 145 GIS data layers classified on five main themes: (i) Water & Land Governance, (ii) Hydrology, (iii) Water Use & Hydraulic Infrastructures, (iv) Socio-Economics, and (v) Biophysical Environment. Data sets, identified as critical by the modeling...
The model documentation provides the details of the ENVISION RGB modeling framework. ENVISION is a spatially explicit integrated simulation platform that was allows to simulate the coupled dynamics of socio-environmental systems (Bolte et al., 2007). To document the model implementation, we used the ODD + D protocol (Grimm et al., 2010; Müller et al., 2013) which is a standard format for describing agent-based models that include human decision making.
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