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Dear colleagues Remind the Social Simulation Conference 2016 <http://www.ssc2016.cnr.it/> in Rome. Please consider submitting abstracts to the special session on Agent-based models for sustainability: exploring social, economic, spatial and environmental dynamics. http://www.ssc2016.cnr.it/sessions/34/agent-based-models-for-sustainability-exploring-social-economic-spatial-and-environmental-dynamics Session Chairs: Roman Seidl<http://www.tdlab.usys.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.html?persid=165023>, ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Switzerland Tatiana Filatova<http://tatianafilatova.weebly.com/>, University of Twente, Netherlands The ESSA SIG on Socio-Ecological Issues of Sustainable Development aims to bring together researches using spatially explicit agent-based modelling to explore spatial, environmental and ecological-economic issues. At this year's Social Simulation Conference we propose a thematic focus on socio-economic models for sustainability. Understanding sustainable development in different domains such as environmentally, socially, individually and economically and the complex interactions between these domains is a challenge for recent research. Environmental impacts of human behaviour in systems including nonlinear interactions, feedbacks, self-organization and path-dependence are not trivial research themes. As currently many societies are on unsustainable development tracks, research is needed that captures the complexity and addresses the systemic aspect - explicit in terms of time and space. A lot of research has been done to explore behaviour that drives land-use patterns, economic interactions in land and resources markets, spatial externalities, trading quotas for emission or sustainable harvest, management of common-pool resources, impacts of economic behaviour on carbon emission, ecosystem-services, modelling farmers' behaviour and urban dynamics including pedestrian modelling. These various questions are connected by the overarching goal of sustainable development. We thus welcome contributions related to * Combinations of spatial heterogeneity and processes in natural systems * Geographical and spatial econometric models * Heterogeneity of social behaviour grounded in economics (experimental, environmental or ecological, and spatial) * Sociological and psychological theories of decisions under uncertainty related to sustainability * Concepts and solutions for modelling coupled human-natural system and spatial or ecological agent-based applications * Societal self-organisation processes to address global change and resource issues Best wishes Roman ........................................... Dr. Roman Seidl ETH Zurich Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED) Department of Environmental Systems Science - USYS TdLab Universitaetstrasse 22 CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 93 19