Integrated Socio-Environmental Modelling of Policy Scenarios for Scotland is a five-year project involving a collaboration between The James Hutton Institute and The Rowett Institute (two of the Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutions – 'SEFARIs' for short), funded by the Scottish Government's Strategic Research Programme 2022-2027 under Theme C (Human Impacts on the Environment), Topic Line 5: "Large Scale Modelling".
The project addresses research questions on data and model integration and provenance, knowledge acquisition, trade and economic impacts on the agricultural sector, resilience and adaptation to climate change in crop systems, and the circular economy. 'Large scale' means whole of Scotland plus, with increasing resolution in terms of space, time and agents. We also take the view that 'large scale' means the computation needed for the modelling cannot be achieved in a personal computing environment.
This website contains detailed information about the project. For an overview, see the project's SEFARI page.