| This research project demonstrates how a technologically-detailed simulation model (Canadian Integrated Modelling System) can be used to provide parameter estimates for a more general, but pedagogically useful, regional sustainability computer model (Georgia Basin QUEST). QUEST is a computer game in which the user undertakes various actions in an attempt to sustainably develop the Georgia Basin region of British Columbia. An external review committee suggested the QUEST enhance its ability to represent economic feedbacks and technological evolution.;In response, scenarios were developed in CIMS to reflect the world view, action, and policy choices available to the QUEST user. CIMS is a technologically explicit and behaviourally realistic simulation model which is considerably more complex than the QUEST energy model in terms of its representation of individual technologies, economic feedbacks and energy consumption forecasts. The CIMS scenarios included an information campaign, a... |
