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This repository holds a collection of files associated with the Indus Village model, including separate modules implementations, demonstrations, tests, and pseudo-code diagrams.

What is the Indus Village model?

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Overall design

The overall design of the Indus Village model is as follows:

Overall design

Link to file

Road map of development and integration of submodels

Road map Land Crop model

(consolidated by Jan 2022) | Link to file

Road map Household Food Economy model

(in progress by Apr 2022) | Link to file

Submodels and integrated versions

Task management legend:
⬜️ = to do
✅ = completed (🔛 if still open for development)
✏️ = under development

  1. Weather model

    1. Base version
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    2. With spatial diversity
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
  2. Soil Water model
    (already integrated with Weather model)

    1. Base version
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    2. With spatial diversity
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
  3. Land model

    1. Base version (only elevation)
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    2. With flow directions
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    3. With flow accumulations
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    4. With soil properties
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    5. With initial ecological communities
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)

I1. Integrated Land Water model: Weather, Soil Water Balance, and Land models
(design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)


  1. Crop model
    (already integrated with Weather and Soil Water Balance models)
    1. Base version
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    2. With spatial diversity
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)

I2. Integrated Land Crop model: Weather, Soil Water Balance, Land, and Crop models
(design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)


  1. Household Demography model

    1. Base version
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅🔛 | documentation: ✅🔛)
    2. With kinship taboo for new couples
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅🔛 | documentation: ✏️)
    3. With mortality regulated by nutrition score
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅🔛 | documentation: ✏️)
    4. With daily time step
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅🔛 | documentation: ✏️)
  2. Food Storage model

    1. Base version
      (design: ✅ | implementation: ✅ | documentation: ✅🔛)
    2. With local exchange
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅🔛 | documentation: ✅🔛)
  3. Nutrition model

    1. Base version
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ✅🔛 | documentation: ✏️)
  4. Food Exchange model

    1. Base version
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ⬜️ | documentation: ⬜️)
  5. Food Strategy model

    1. Base version
      (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ⬜️ | documentation: ⬜️)

I3. Integrated Household Food Economy model: Food Storage, Exchange, Nutrition, and Household Demography models
(design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ⬜️ | documentation: ⬜️)


  1. Household Position model
    1. Base version
    (design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ⬜️ | documentation: ⬜️)

I4. Integrated Landed Household Food Economy model: integrated Land Crop, Household Position, and Household Food Economy models
(design: ✅🔛 | implementation: ⬜️ | documentation: ⬜️)


Related publications

Angourakis, A., Bates, J., Baudouin, J.-P., Giesche, A., Ustunkaya, M. C., Wright, N., Singh, R. N., & Petrie, C. A. (2020). How to ‘downsize’ a complex society: An agent-based modelling approach to assess the resilience of Indus Civilisation settlements to past climate change. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), 115004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abacf9