In Print: ‘SIMPLE-G: A Gridded Economic Approach to Sustainability Analysis of the Earth’s Land and Water Resources’

Publication title

SIMPLE-G: A Gridded Economic Approach to Sustainability Analysis of the Earth’s Land and Water Resources

Purdue authors

Iman Haqiqi

Thomas Hertel

Publisher

Springer Cham

Publication date

October 29, 2024

About the book (from the publisher)

Crafted for both the economist and the curious mind, this book introduces a novel approach to blending economic and biophysical sciences to enable multiscale analysis of a range of sustainability challenges confronting the world’s land and water resources at both local and global scales. It focuses specifically on the interface between the environment and food systems, utilizing economic theory to structure the overall framework. However, within the SIMPLE-G framework, there is ample room to incorporate fine-scale biophysical knowledge from agronomy, climate science, ecology, geography and hydrology, as well as a range of socioeconomic considerations. This enables multiscale analyses incorporating grid cells that can vary in size from 250 meters to subregional scales. This, in turn, allows for investigation of global change drivers’ impacts on local sustainability, as well as feedback from local sustainability policies to regional and global outcomes.

About the Purdue authors

Iman Haqiqi is an agricultural research economist within the Global to Local Analysis of Systems Sustainability lab in Purdue’s Center for Global Trade Analysis. His work is centered on international agricultural trade, land use, water resources and climate change. In 2022 Haqiqi received the Seed for Success Acorn Award, given to those who have obtained an external sponsored award of $1 million or greater.

Thomas Hertel is a Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Purdue University. He is a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Hertel is the founder and executive director of the Global Trade Analysis Project, which encompasses more than 29,000 researchers in 179 countries.

About the In Print series

To celebrate our faculty’s excellence in scholarship, Purdue Today’s weekly book series highlights faculty expertise across diverse subjects and disciplines. Find out more about the Purdue University Books Initiative and how to suggest a book for the In Print series on the Office of the Provost website.