Agent-Based Modelling for Environmental Coalition Formation

Abstract

Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for successful environmental management. Agent-based modelling on a computer has the potential to build a practical theory of intervention in this and related contexts. Potentially we can compare real intervention strategies with those an agent-based model suggests and hence obtain new insights and guidelines of practical value. But the technical problems of model building for this purpose are formidable. We explain and discuss these problems by reference to an example model specification framework, and seek ways forward. Insights obtained may be generalised to coalition formation in general.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADP012335

Entities

People

  • Jim Doran

Organizations

  • University of Essex

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agent-Based Simulations
  • Agent-Oriented Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Drainage Basins
  • Engineering
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Natural Resources
  • Resource Management
  • Simulations
  • Social Sciences
  • Water Resources

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