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An Agent-Based Model Of Coupled Housing And Land Markets, Nicholas Magliocca, Elena Safirova, Virginia Mcconnell, Margaret Walls
An Agent-Based Model Of Coupled Housing And Land Markets, Nicholas Magliocca, Elena Safirova, Virginia Mcconnell, Margaret Walls
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
This paper describes a spatially disaggregated, economic agent-based model of urban land use that includes explicitly specified and coupled land and housing markets. The three types of agents— consumer, farmer and developer—all make decisions based on underlying economic principles, and heterogeneity of both individuals and the landscape is represented. The model can be used to simulate the conversion of farmland to housing development over time, through the actions of the agents in the land and housing markets. Land and building structures in the housing bundle are treated explicitly, so the model can represent the effects of land and housing prices …
Development Of A Land-Use Component For An Integrated Model Of The German Biogas System, A. Schaldach, D. Lapola, U. Jessen, M. Thees, Ruediger Schaldach
Development Of A Land-Use Component For An Integrated Model Of The German Biogas System, A. Schaldach, D. Lapola, U. Jessen, M. Thees, Ruediger Schaldach
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Germany is one of the biggest producers of biogas in Europe. Biogas can either be combusted in highly efficient combined heat and power units to produce electricity and heat, or upgraded to biomethane for injection into the natural gas grid. As political conditions encourage the installation of new biogas plants, their number and capacity is expected to grow significantly in the next few years. In Germany, energy crops play an important role for biogas production. Due to their relatively low energy content transport distances from the field to the plants are a crucial issue for the efficiency of the biogas …
Dss And Maf (Multi-Agencies Framework) For Sustainable Water Management, Amgad Elmahdi, Don Mcfarlane
Dss And Maf (Multi-Agencies Framework) For Sustainable Water Management, Amgad Elmahdi, Don Mcfarlane
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Water problems throughout the world can be seen as an issue of management, not a crisis of water shortage. Equitable allocation of groundwater resources is a growing challenge due to the increasing demand for water and the competing values placed on its use. Sustainable management of water resources comes with compromises and trade-offs of the other sub-systems (environment, economic and social) and almost ignores other stakeholders’ objectives and benefits. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the hypothesis that “through multi-agency framework with supporting tools, such as a decision support system (DSS), a comprehensive framework can promote …
Development Of A Land-Use Component For An Integrated Model Of The German Biogas System, A. Schaldach, D. Lapola, U. Jessen, M. Thees, Ruediger Schaldach
Development Of A Land-Use Component For An Integrated Model Of The German Biogas System, A. Schaldach, D. Lapola, U. Jessen, M. Thees, Ruediger Schaldach
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Germany is one of the biggest producers of biogas in Europe. Biogas can either be combusted in highly efficient combined heat and power units to produce electricity and heat, or upgraded to biomethane for injection into the natural gas grid. As political conditions encourage the installation of new biogas plants, their number and capacity is expected to grow significantly in the next few years. In Germany, energy crops play an important role for biogas production. Due to their relatively low energy content transport distances from the field to the plants are a crucial issue for the efficiency of the biogas …
Integrating Biophysical And Economic Data To Support Water Allocations In The Murray Basin, Australia, M. Ejaz Qureshi, S. M. Whitten
Integrating Biophysical And Economic Data To Support Water Allocations In The Murray Basin, Australia, M. Ejaz Qureshi, S. M. Whitten
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Economic analysis of policies aimed at sustainable use and management of natural resources requires information about the biophysical and economic aspects of alternative options. Since these biophysical and economic aspects are inter-related and inter-dependent, it is essential that these data are integrated. However, existing biophysical and economic monitoring networks and studies tend to observe, collect and report biophysical and economic data at different scales. Consequently, much of these data are spatially incompatible and require significant effort in manipulating and scaling for a comprehensive economic analysis. In the current study, the key steps in overcoming spatial incompatibilities between biophysical and economic …
Dss And Maf (Multi-Agencies Framework) For Sustainable Water Management, Amgad Elmahdi, Don Mcfarlane
Dss And Maf (Multi-Agencies Framework) For Sustainable Water Management, Amgad Elmahdi, Don Mcfarlane
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Water problems throughout the world can be seen as an issue of management, not a crisis of water shortage. Equitable allocation of groundwater resources is a growing challenge due to the increasing demand for water and the competing values placed on its use. Sustainable management of water resources comes with compromises and trade-offs of the other sub-systems (environment, economic and social) and almost ignores other stakeholders’ objectives and benefits. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the hypothesis that “through multi-agency framework with supporting tools, such as a decision support system (DSS), a comprehensive framework can promote …
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
We report results from roughly 20,000 runs of a coupled agent-based model of land use change and species metacommunity model. We explored the effect of increasing government incentive to improve biodiversity, in the context of other influences on land manager decision making: aspirations, input costs, and price variability. The experiments test four kinds of policy varying along two dimensions: activity-versus-outcome-based incentive, and individual-versus-collective incentive. The results reveal critical thresholds in incentive schemes, where a sudden increase in environmental benefit occurs for a small increase in incentive. Further, the context affects the level of incentive at which tipping points occur, and …
An Agent-Based Model Of Coupled Housing And Land Markets, Nicholas Magliocca, Elena Safirova, Virginia Mcconnell, Margaret Walls
An Agent-Based Model Of Coupled Housing And Land Markets, Nicholas Magliocca, Elena Safirova, Virginia Mcconnell, Margaret Walls
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
This paper describes a spatially disaggregated, economic agent-based model of urban land use that includes explicitly specified and coupled land and housing markets. The three types of agents— consumer, farmer and developer—all make decisions based on underlying economic principles, and heterogeneity of both individuals and the landscape is represented. The model can be used to simulate the conversion of farmland to housing development over time, through the actions of the agents in the land and housing markets. Land and building structures in the housing bundle are treated explicitly, so the model can represent the effects of land and housing prices …
Integrating Biophysical And Economic Data To Support Water Allocations In The Murray Basin, Australia, M. Ejaz Qureshi, S. M. Whitten
Integrating Biophysical And Economic Data To Support Water Allocations In The Murray Basin, Australia, M. Ejaz Qureshi, S. M. Whitten
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
Economic analysis of policies aimed at sustainable use and management of natural resources requires information about the biophysical and economic aspects of alternative options. Since these biophysical and economic aspects are inter-related and inter-dependent, it is essential that these data are integrated. However, existing biophysical and economic monitoring networks and studies tend to observe, collect and report biophysical and economic data at different scales. Consequently, much of these data are spatially incompatible and require significant effort in manipulating and scaling for a comprehensive economic analysis. In the current study, the key steps in overcoming spatial incompatibilities between biophysical and economic …
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
Analysis Of Incentive Schemes For Biodiversity Using A Coupled Agent-Based Model Of Land Use Change And Species Metacommunity Model, J. Gary Polhill, Alessandro Gimona, Nicholas M. Gotts
International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software
We report results from roughly 20,000 runs of a coupled agent-based model of land use change and species metacommunity model. We explored the effect of increasing government incentive to improve biodiversity, in the context of other influences on land manager decision making: aspirations, input costs, and price variability. The experiments test four kinds of policy varying along two dimensions: activity-versus-outcome-based incentive, and individual-versus-collective incentive. The results reveal critical thresholds in incentive schemes, where a sudden increase in environmental benefit occurs for a small increase in incentive. Further, the context affects the level of incentive at which tipping points occur, and …