Model-based governance in a sustainable world

This Special Issue (hereafter SI), entitled “Model-Based Governance in a Sustainable World”, specifically aims at establishing whether, and under which conditions, computer models and simulations effectively and accurately deal with complexity in policy-making and strategy development and implementation. The impacts generated by policy/strategy implementations have historically been very difficult to anticipate, due to the many complex and interconnected phenomena surrounding them (IPCC, 2014). Among them, factors such as dynamic complexity, causal ambiguity, and path dependency may severely hamper the ability of decision-makers to design and implement effective strategies and policies aimed at obtaining organisational resilience and hence sustainable results (Sterman, 2000).