MADINGLEY MODEL

The Madingley model was developed to answer fundamental questions about achieving sustainability. The model can explore how ecosystems and the services that they provide will respond in a future of record human population density, a warming climate, increasing natural habitat conversion and fishing effort. It is still under development - climate models have evolved over more than 50 years - but we have a vision of the types of policy decisions that Madingley could answer... Our goal is to explore the interactions between humans and ecosystems - and the services they provide - at national, regional and global scales, and to provide robust scientific information in an easily interpretable manner... As our aim is to assist with providing answers to pressing questions about the natural world and our effect on it, we are happy to discuss how the model can be used to answer specific policy questions. Most ecological scientists with computational backgrounds will be able to interact with..