Taxonomy of processes

Based on [Donges2016], we classify processes into three major taxons: environment, social metabolism, and culture.

We give only a rough definition and abstain from defining a finer, hierarchical taxonomy, being aware that gaining consensus among different disciplines on such a taxonomy would be unlikely, and thus leaving the assignment of individual processes and attributes to either taxon to the respective model component developers:

• Process taxon “Environment”
• Process taxon “Social Metabolism”
• Process taxon “Culture”

[Donges2016]

Donges, J. F., Lucht, W., Heitzig, J., Cornell, S., Lade, S., & Schlüter, M. (2016). A taxonomy of co-evolutionary interactions in the planetary social-ecological system as represented in models. Working Paper, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.