Complex Socio-Environmental or Socio-Ecological Systems show an interconnected relationship between society and the environment while the individual based models mostly refers to the ecological models.
Complex Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) depends on a lot of variables that link the human behaviour, the scoiety and the policies with the environmental and the ecological factors. The modelling for this domain requires hoe human decisions affects the environment and create a simulation model linking the two relationships.
Source: https://sesmo.org/article/view/16226#