Papers by Juan Carlos Escudero
The METRONAMICA model and its tools The primary goal of METRONAMICA is to explore the effects of ... more The METRONAMICA model and its tools The primary goal of METRONAMICA is to explore the effects of (alternative) policy options on the quality of the socioeconomic and physical environment and, with this information at hand, to stimulate and facilitate awareness building, learning, and discussion, prior to decisionmaking. To this end, the system combines autonomous developments with policy-induced changes to form integral pictures of possible futures for the area modelled and evaluates their relative value on the basis of social, economic and ecological criteria. It does not seek to optimise the separate economic, ecological and social dimensions, rather to maximise the whole. Although this means losing some detail, the benefit of the approach is the strong integrative and interactive nature of the resulting system, in which highly dynamic, autonomous processes play a key role.
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Papers by Juan Carlos Escudero