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Abstract

The role of individual and collective human action is increasingly recognized as a prominent and arguably paramount determinant in shaping the behavior, trajectory, and vulnerability of multisector systems. This human influence operates at multiple scales: from short‐term (hourly to daily) to long‐term (annually to centennial) timescales, and from the local to the global, pushing systems toward either desirable or undesirable outcomes. However, the effort to represent human systems in multisector models has been fragmented across philosophical, methodological, and disciplinary lines. To cohere insights across diverse modeling approaches, we present a new typology for classifying how human actors are represented in the broad suite of coupled human‐natural system models that are applied in MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) research. The typology conceptualizes a “sector” as a system‐of‐systems that includes a diverse group of human actors, defined across individual to collective social levels, involved in governing, provisioning, and utilizing products, goods, or services toward some human end. We trace the salient features of modeled representations of human systems by organizing the typology around two key questions: (a) Who are the actors in MSD systems and what are their actions? (b) How and for what purpose are these actors and actions operationalized in a computational model? We use this typology to critically examine existing models and chart the frontier of human systems modeling for MSD research.

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Title
A Typology for Characterizing Human Action in MultiSector Dynamics Models
Author
Yoon, Jim 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Patricia Romero‐Lankao 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Yang, Y C Ethan 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Klassert, Christian 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Urban, Nathan 5 ; Kaiser, Kendra 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Keller, Klaus 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Yarlagadda, Brinda 8   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Voisin, Nathalie 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Reed, Patrick M 9   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Moss, Richard 1 

 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA 
 National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA 
 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA 
 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Leipzig, Germany 
 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA 
 Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA 
 Penn State and Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 
 University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA 
 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Aug 2022
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
e-ISSN
23284277
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2707715111
Copyright
© 2022. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.