IPAT-S: A scripting language for sustainability scenarios
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IPAT-S Case Studies

IPAT-S case studies are short studies on specific topics that use the IPAT-S scripting language to explore scenarios for that topic. They consist of a document (an Adobe Acrobat file) and an IPAT-S script.

IPAT-S users are invited to submit case studies. Please e-mail them to casestudy@ipat-s.kb-creative.net. If you send a Word, WordPerfect or OpenOffice document, it will be put into the same format as the other case studies and a pdf will be generated and e-mailed back to you.

  1. The Future of Crop Yields and Cropped Area (0.5 MB Adobe Acrobat file) with IPAT-S script.
  2. Traveling Along the Environmental Kuznets Curve (0.2 MB Adobe Acrobat file) with IPAT-S script. Revised 30 November 2003, with references added.
  3. Feed Use in Scenarios (0.2 MB Adobe Acrobat file) with IPAT-S script.
  4. Approximating Politics (88 KB Adobe Acrobat file) with IPAT-S script.
  5. Climate Change Adaptation: Coping With Malaria (0.1 MB Adobe Acrobat file) with IPAT-S script.

IPAT-S Scenario Notes

IPAT-S scenario notes are informal essays on scenario methodology in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format.

  1. Narrative-Driven Scenario Development (52 KB Adobe Acrobat file).
  2. Numbers in Scenario Studies (79 KB Adobe Acrobat file).

Scenarios & Sustainability

The web site for the Scenarios for Sustainability consortium.

The paper From Narrative to Number, by the creator of IPAT-S, delivered at the 2004 conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs 2004)

IPAT Links

The Theory of Population-Environment Links in the AAAS Atlas of Population and the Environment

The paper A framework for sustainability science: A renovated IPAT identity from Rockefeller University’s Program for the Human Environment

Online book (U.S. National Academy Press, 1997) Environmentally Significant Consumption

Collections of Models and Modeling Resources

The WWW-Server for Ecological Modelling

The Optimization Technology Center (including information on linear programming)

Netlib, a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases

Software for Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) and Complex Adaptive Systems



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