Values in socio-environmental modelling: Persuasion for action or excuse for inaction

Affiliations: 10 1 Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) University of Twente, P.O. Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands 2 UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstr.15 D 04318 Leipzig, Germany 3 Natural Environment Research Council, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, EH26 0QB, 15 United Kingdom Dynamic Macroecology, Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zurcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland 20 6 Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 7 Melbourne Academy for Sustainability and Society (MASS), Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI), the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia *Correspondence to: [email protected] 25