Professors: Gilberto Câmara, Pedro R. Andrade

• Modeling the Environment (2nd edition), Andrew Ford. Island Press, 2010.
• Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
• Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems, Michael L. Deaton & James J. Winebrake. Springer, 2000.
• Simulation for the Social Scientist, Nigel Gilbert & Klaus Troitzsch, Open University Press, 2005.
• Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life, John H. Miller & Scott Page, Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Cities and Complexity. Michael Batty. MIT Press, 2007.

The models described in this course will be developed using TerraME. TerraME is an extension of the Lua language. Some useful documents about TerraME:

• Lua for TerraME: A Short Introduction
• TerraME paper on EMS journal
• Introduction to Lua

Students should read the TerraME EMS paper first, to get a sense of the language. Then they should read the Lua papers, to learn about programming in Lua.

• Wood, A. J., G. J. Ackland, J. G. Dyke, H. T. P. Williams, and T. M. Lenton (2008), Daisyworld: A review, Rev. Geophys., 46, RG1001.
• W. von Bloh. Daisyworld: a tutorial approach to geophysiological modelling http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~bloh/
• Schelling, T. C. (1971). Dynamic models of segregation. Journal of mathematical sociology, 1(2), 143-186. (check also for its variations in the literature)
• Timothy M. Lenton(1998). Gaia and Natural Selection. Nature 394, 439-447 (30 July 1998)
• Nowak MA & Sigmund K (2000), Games on Grids. In: The Geometry of Ecological Interactions: Simplifying Spatial Complexity, eds. Dieckmann U, Law R & Metz JAJ, pp. 135–150. Cambridge UniversityPress.

The final project consists of an implementation and discussion of one of the following papers.