Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling

SISMO is an open-access, community driven, scholarly journal aiming to progress our understanding, learning and decision making on major socio-environmental issues using advances in model-grounded processes that engage with institutional and governance contexts, cross-sectoral and scale challenges, and stakeholder perspectives. Fit-for-purpose problem framing, model development and evaluation as well as eclectic uncertainty analysis are stressed so that the advantages and limitations of model-related assumptions are transparent. The aim is to advance model-grounded, learning and decision processes and their wider application to a new level that leads to innovations in thinking and practice to support resolution of grand challenge problems; including generating policy insights and evidence, and reducing and managing critical uncertainties (assumptions, model structure, parameterizations, inputs including future drivers, and boundary conditions).

Types of papers include: Reviews and Reflections : reviews of books, models, data, methods, conferences, MOOCs or other types of scholarly activities related to modelling of socio-environmental systems. Reviews provide authoritative, unbiased critique of those scholarly activities and provide constructive information of the latest developments in the field.