Blar i Department of Geography på forfatter "Kopainsky, Birgit"
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Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Case examples and priority information needs
Nicholson, Charles F.; Stephens, Emma C.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Thornton, Philip K.; Jones, Andrew D.; Parsons, David; Garrett, James (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Analyses of food security with agricultural systems models often focus on indicators of food availability, with limited treatment of the other three dimensions: food access, stability and utilization. We illustrate how ... -
Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models: Current status and recommended improvements
Nicholson, Charles F.; Stephens, Emma C.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Jones, Andrew D.; Parsons, David; Garrett, James (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Improvement of food security is a common objective for many agricultural systems analyses, but how food security has been conceptualized and evaluated within agricultural systems has not been systematically evaluated. We ... -
A food systems perspective for food and nutrition security beyond the post-2015 development agenda
Kopainsky, Birgit; Ledermann, Samuel T.; Tribaldos, Theresa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This paper proposes a framework for dealing with the complexity of food systems for guiding implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Sustainable Development Goal number 2 ‘End hunger, achieve food security and improved ... -
How do Zambian smallholder farmers allocate their budget? Evidence of dynamic decision-making based on a Cournot field experiment
Gerber, Andreas; Lara-Arango, David; Nyanga, Progress; Kopainsky, Birgit (Conference lecture, 2017)Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa repeatedly face situations of complex and dynamic decision trade-offs, which include allocating money across short-term and long-term production activities. Short-term activities ... -
Human-water dynamics and their role for seasonal water scarcity – a case study
Lindqvist, Andreas; Fornell, Rickard; Prade, Thomas; Tufvesson, Linda; Khalil, Sammar; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Ensuring sustainable management and an adequate supply of freshwater resources is a growing challenge around the world. Even in historically water abundant regions climate change together with population growth and economic ... -
Impacts of future climate on local water supply and demand – A socio-hydrological case study in the Nordic region
Lindqvist, Andreas; Fornell, Rickard; Prade, Thomas; Khalil, Sammar; Tufvesson, Linda; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Study region Fårö island, part of Region Gotland, Sweden. Study focus Despite its importance for proactive planning and management, understanding of how future climate and socioeconomic trends may interact to influence ... -
Natural resource management: Contributions of system dynamics to research, policy and implementation. Selected papers from the Seventh European System Dynamics Workshop, at University of Bergen, Norway
Lane, David C.; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article, 2017-07) -
Norwegian low-intensity ovine and bovine farming systems—a resilience perspective
Potthoff, Kerstin; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The concept of socio-ecological resilience can be used to understand and measure to what degree farming systems are able to handle and adapt to disturbances. The article is based on the application of a framework for ... -
Participatory modelling updates expectations for individuals and groups, catalyzing be-havior change and collective action in nexus governance
Kimmich, Christian; Gallagher, Louise; Kopainsky, Birgit; Dubois, Marc; Sovann, C.; Buth, C.; Bréthaut, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Participatory modeling is a potentially high‐impact approach for catalyzing fundamental sustainability transformations. We test if participation in a group system dynamics modeling exercise increases participants' agency ... -
Reflections on adapting group model building scripts into online workshops
Wilkerson, Brooke; Aguiar Rodriguez, Anaely; Gkini, Christina; Czermainski de Oliveira, Igor; Trellevik, Lars-Kristian Lunde; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-28) -
Setting Priorities to Address the Research Gaps Between Agricultural Systems Analysis and Food Security Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Nicholson, Charles F.; Stephens, Emma; Jones, A.D.; Kopainsky, Birgit; Parsons, David; Garrett, James H. (CGIAR Working Paper; 255, Research report, 2019)This document assesses the current state of practice for the representation of food security indicators in agricultural systems models and provides recommendations for improvements in both model formulation and the empirical ... -
Short-term versus long-term decision trade-offs: Evidence from a model-based observational experiment with African small-scale farmers
Kopainsky, Birgit; Gerber, Andreas; Lara Arango, David; Nyanga, Progress Hanzwida (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Smallholder farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa recurrently face situations of complex and dynamic decision trade‐offs. Short‐term‐oriented activities such as fertilizer application help to cover immediate food needs but compromise ... -
Simulation-based assessment of cholera epidemic response: A case study of Al-Hudaydah, Yemen
Loo, Pei Shan; Aguiar, Anaely; Kopainsky, Birgit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cholera kills between 21,000 and 143,000 people globally each year. It is often fatal, killing up to 50% of the severely symptomatic patients; but death by cholera is preventable with timely treatment, so that the fatality ... -
Smallholder farmer resilience to extreme weather events in a global food value chain
Thompson, William J.; Varma, Varun; Jörin, Jonas; Bonilla-Duarte, Solhanlle; Bebber, Daniel P.; Blaser-Hart, Wilma; Kopainsky, Birgit; Späth, Leonhard; Curcio, Bianca; Six, Johan; Krütli, Pius (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Extreme weather events have severe impacts on food systems, especially for smallholders in global food value chains (GFVCs). There is an urgent need to understand (a) how climate shocks manifest in food systems, and (b) ... -
Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus
Gallagher, Louise; Kopainsky, Birgit; Bassi, Andrea Marcello; Betancourt, Andrea; Chanmeta, Buth; Puthearath, Chan; Simon, Costanzo; Sarah St. George, Freeman; Chandet, Horm; Sandab, Khim; Malyne, Neang; Naroeun, Rin; Ken, Sereyrotha; Kimchhin, Sok; Chansopheaktra, Sovann; Michele, Thieme; Karina, Watkins; Wyborn, Carina; Bréthaut, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The water-energy-food nexus concept is criticized as not yet fit for deeply integrated and contested governance agendas. One problem is how to achieve equitable risk governance and management where there is low consensus ... -
Sustainable and healthy diets: Synergies and trade‐offs in Switzerland
Kopainsky, Birgit; Frehner, Anita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Food systems have increasingly strong impacts on the environment, and they influence our human well-being. In Switzerland, food consumption accounts for one-third of the environmental impact caused by total final consumption. ... -
System dynamics and simulation-gaming: Overview
Alessi, Stephen M.; Kopainsky, Birgit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Purpose. This article summarizes the nine contributions to the symposium on system dynamics. The goal of the symposium is to investigate how research in system dynamics is contributing to simulation-gaming, and how the ... -
A system dynamics approach for examining mechanisms and pathways of food supply vulnerability
Stave, Krystyna; Kopainsky, Birgit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09)Understanding vulnerabilities in complex and interdependent modern food systems requires a whole-system perspective. This paper demonstrates how one systems approach, system dynamics, can help conceptualize the mechanisms ... -
System dynamics simulation models on overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review
Aguiar, Anaely; Gebremariam, Mekdes Kebede; Romanenko, Eduard; Onal, Furkan; Kopainsky, Birgit; Savona, Natalie; Brown, Andrew; Allender, Steven; Lien, Nanna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)It has increasingly been recognized that developing successful obesity prevention policies and interventions requires understanding of the complex mechanisms driving the obesity pandemic and that models could be useful ... -
Systems Education at Bergen
Wheat, David; Kopainsky, Birgit; Davidsen, Pål; Pedercini, Matteo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-04-16)At the University of Bergen in Norway, educating students to use computer models and to think systemically about social and economic problems began in the 1970s. The International Masters Program in System Dynamics was ...