Abstract
This chapter outlines several approaches for the representation and integration of human activity and human decision-making in environmental modelling. It presents these approaches in three broad categories: scenarios and integrated assessment modelling, economic modelling, and agent-based modelling. These approaches vary in how well they represent reciprocal interactions, their representation of heterogeneity in individuals' decision-making processes, and the tractability of the influence of model assumptions on outcomes. The chapter also discusses some of the wider issues of modelling humans and highlights some of the key issues that modellers will need to consider.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Environmental Modelling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity: Second Edition |
| Publisher | John Wiley and sons |
| Pages | 291-307 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470749111 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Jan 2013 |
Keywords
- Agent-based modelling
- Economic modelling
- Environmental modelling
- Human decision-making
- Scenario approaches