Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems (ERIE) is a major EPSRC-funded six-year programme in Complexity Science for the Real World. Industrial ecology is multidisciplinary field that draws an analogy between biological ecosystems and the web of relationships between firms, industries, people, environment and governance structures in the economy. ERIE focuses on agent-based and network models of industrial ecosystems, such the one developing on the South Humber Bank, and global food supply webs. Our programme of research aims to embed cutting-edge complexity science methods and techniques within 'serious games', prototype computational tools that will provide policymakers with realistic and reliable platforms for strategy-testing in real-world socio-economic systems. On the analytical side, we will be developing data assimilation techniques, path-dependency analysis and equation-free methods for stochastic bifurcations, and studying the dynamics of and on networks.

Full details can be found on the ERIE website.