In an effort to address these challenges and promote the benefits of integrated modeling, CREM has launched an international Community of Practice for Integrated Environmental Modeling (CIEM).
Community of Practice:
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share an interest in something, and come together regularly to develop knowledge around this topic, in order to use it in practice (Wenger, 1998).
The CIEM aims to stimulate interactions among its members to foster learning and knowledge sharing and to spark innovation in the field of integrated environmental modeling. The CIEM will also promote integrated modeling as a means of achieving better management decisions, so that resources are used sustainably and broader impacts (often unknown during conventional, stove-piped approaches) are better understood.