Reinforcing the Place of Dynamic Spatialised Indicators in a Generic Socioeconomic Model

Abstract

This chapter describes and discusses a work aiming to contribute to how dynamic sustainable development indicators may be spatially represented in a generic spatial-integrated socioeconomic model (SISM). It means that, at a socioeconomic level, the resulting SISM should be capable of supporting applications modelled at different territorial scales and, at a spatial level, the SISM should be capable (a) of spatially representing the temporal evolution of the indicators by itself and (b) of exporting, at any time during a SISM simulation, the temporal evolution of the spatial state of the model as a (new) map exploitable in a GIS tool. The proposal from this chapter is to design a generic object-based SISM resulting from a combination of a multi-agent model and an object-based version of a system dynamics model so that all selected indicators can be spatialised via shaped objects independently of the territory study and the modelling approach.

Subjective evaluation of aggregate supply scenarios in the Ile-de-France region with a view to a circular economy: the ANR AGREGA research project

“…Consequently, we have not for example considered space and time during this deliberation process, i.e., the element bearing the knowledge on how geographic distribution of offers, demands and constraints of the sector changes over time (prospective), and along the sector's supply chain. This mechanism for spatial and dynamic representation of indicators would however merit being strengthened (Andriamasinoro, 2013) to enrich the debate.…”