Equity and modeling in sustainability science: Examples and opportunities throughout the process.

ABSTRACT: Equity is core to sustainability, but current interventions to enhance sustainability often fall short in adequately addressing this linkage. Models are important tools for informing action, and their development and use present opportunities to center equity in process and outcomes. This Perspective highlights progress in integrating equity into systems modeling in sustainability science, as well as key challenges, tensions, and future directions. We present a conceptual framework for equity in systems modeling, focused on its distributional, procedural, and recognitional dimensions. We discuss examples of how modelers engage with these different dimensions throughout the modeling process and from across a range of modeling approaches and topics, including water resources, energy systems,

SUBMITTER: Giang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10990085 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature