Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change

Models of landscape change?

Evaluating the Functionality of Conceptual Models

Conceptual models serve as the blueprints of information systems and their quality plays decisive role in the success of the end system. It has been witnessed that majority of the IS change-requests results due to deficient functionalities in the information systems. Therefore, a good analysis and design method should ensure that conceptual models are functionally correct and complete, as they ...

Conceptual and design essentials for evaluating mechanisms of change.

BACKGROUND Considerable progress has been made toward the development of evidence-based treatments for a wide range of psychological disorders; however, little is known about the mechanisms through which these treatments actually lead to clinical change. Although the use of traditional randomized controlled treatment designs and tests of statistical mediation have significantly advanced underst...

A Multi-Perspective Framework for Evaluating Conceptual Models in Organisational Change

The success of organisational change processes depends on a number of factors. Traditional organisational change research has been predominantly concerned with social and human issues. Nevertheless, due to the ever increasing complexity of organisations and their IT-Systems, today good information on the internal structures are indispensable for the required swift changes. Corporate conceptual ...

Progress in coupling models of human and coastal landscape change

4 Humans are increasingly altering the Earth’s surface, and affecting processes that shape and 5 reshape landscapes. In many cases, humans are reacting to landscape-change processes that 6 represent natural hazards. Thus, the landscape is reacting to humans who are reacting to the 7 landscape. When the timescales for landscape change are comparable to those of human 8 dynamics, human and ‘natur...