Roelof Boumans, PhD

Roelof Boumans is an ecological economist and visiting scholar at Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Since 1996, his work has been highly integrated on the interface between the human and natural systems. He designed the Multi-scale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services (MIMES), an integrated suite of models to address the system dynamics of four aspects of capital; natural, human, built, and social. All relevant in accounting for ecosystem services: the ecosystems that support the production of food, the knowledge embedded in the culture to make use of what the ecosystems provide, the capital investments appropriate within the knowledge systems, and the social arrangements and networks to ensure equal distribution of what is produced. Through MIMES projects, he is simulating the tradeoffs inherent in the simultaneous production of and demands upon multiple ecosystem goods and services and explores changes in ecosystem and market economics simultaneously across spatial and temporal scales. MIMES is now featured by the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit.

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