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As indicated in the previous paragraphs, IMAGE 3.0 is a comprehensively integrated modeling framework of interacting human and natural systems. By design it aims to stay in the realm of intermediate complexity modeling, balancing a level of detail as high as needed to capture key processes and behaviour with a level as low as possible to allow for multiple runs to explore various aspects of sensitivity and uncertainty; [[Organizational setup]]. The model framework is particularly suited to support large scale (mostly global) and long-term (up to the year 2100) assessments of key aspects of interactions between human development and the state of the natural environment, integrating across a range of sectors, ecosystems and indicators. On the one hand considering how human activities impact natural systems and natural resources. On the other hand how such impacts hamper the provision of ecosystem goods and services deemed critical to sustain human development. | As indicated in the previous paragraphs, IMAGE 3.0 is a comprehensively integrated modeling framework of interacting human and natural systems. By design it aims to stay in the realm of intermediate complexity modeling, balancing a level of detail as high as needed to capture key processes and behaviour with a level as low as possible to allow for multiple runs to explore various aspects of sensitivity and uncertainty; [[IMAGE framework introduction/Organizational setup]]. The model framework is particularly suited to support large scale (mostly global) and long-term (up to the year 2100) assessments of key aspects of interactions between human development and the state of the natural environment, integrating across a range of sectors, ecosystems and indicators. On the one hand considering how human activities impact natural systems and natural resources. On the other hand how such impacts hamper the provision of ecosystem goods and services deemed critical to sustain human development. | ||
To do so, socio-economic pathways are identified and their implications for energy, land, water and other natural resources are projected by the model, subject to resource availability and quality. Unintended side effects such as emissions to air, water and soils, climatic change, and depletion and degradation of remaining stocks (fossil fuels, forests) are calculated, and are taken into account when moving out into the future. | To do so, socio-economic pathways are identified and their implications for energy, land, water and other natural resources are projected by the model, subject to resource availability and quality. Unintended side effects such as emissions to air, water and soils, climatic change, and depletion and degradation of remaining stocks (fossil fuels, forests) are calculated, and are taken into account when moving out into the future. | ||
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