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| - | ==== "Incorporating illegal behaviors into Brazilian Amazon land use change models" ==== | ||
| - | * What are the legal and illegal processes of land appropriation at the Brazilian Amazon? | + | |
| - | * How to simulate negotiation and corruption for land appropriation? | + | |
| - | * What are the alternative scenarios for corruption mitigation? | + | |
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| ==== "Complex Network Modeling Support" ==== | ==== "Complex Network Modeling Support" ==== | ||
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| Land changes are results from complex social and biophysical systems and their interactions (Turner et al., 1995). Such interactions result from processes that act on different hierarchical levels. At the global scale, the national and international commodities market (beef, grains and timber) drives demand for land change. This way, these changes cannot be adequately understood without knowing their linkages to decisions and structures made elsewhere. In this sense, understanding the role of networks is essential to understanding how to decide about the land use. | Land changes are results from complex social and biophysical systems and their interactions (Turner et al., 1995). Such interactions result from processes that act on different hierarchical levels. At the global scale, the national and international commodities market (beef, grains and timber) drives demand for land change. This way, these changes cannot be adequately understood without knowing their linkages to decisions and structures made elsewhere. In this sense, understanding the role of networks is essential to understanding how to decide about the land use. | ||
| - | + | A network is a set of items, which we will call vertices or nodes, with connections between them, called edges. Networks exist everywhere and at every scale and can be physical, such as infrastructure networks, and logical ones, such as market chains, linking a certain location to distant consumption or influential sites. Several works argue that networks are important tool to describe complex systems, REFS. <gpm> | |
| - | Figure 0.1. Market chain to network theories | + | |
| - | A network is a set of items, which we will call vertices or nodes, with connections between them, called edges. Networks exist everywhere and at every scale and can be physical, such as infrastructure networks, and logical ones, such as market chains, linking a certain location to distant consumption or influential sites. Several works argue that networks are an important tool to describe complex systems, (Barabasi, 2003), (Newman, 2006) and (Watts, 2009) . We believe which networks can be an important tool to link the actor of land change to global scenarios, as market and police public in land change modeling. | ||
| + | We believe which networks can be a important tool to link the actor of land change to global scenarios, as market and police public in land change modeling. However, is necessary to solve some specific challenges: | ||
| * Network Architecture, including data structures and algorithms. | * Network Architecture, including data structures and algorithms. | ||
