Theoretical urban policy literature predicts the likelihood of free riding in the management of common goods such as forested open space; such outcome is often characterized as a Prisoner's Dilemma game. Numerous cases exist in which neighboring jurisdictions cooperate to maintain public goods, challenging the expected results, yet theoretical explanations of these cases have not… Continue reading The emergence of zoning policy games in exurban jurisdictions: Informing collective action theory
Keyword: Agent-based Modeling
Exploratory analyses of local institutions for climate change adaptation in the Mongolian grasslands: An agent-based modeling approach
Abstract There has been a decrease in grazing mobility in the Mongolian grasslands over the past decades. Sedentary grazing with substantial external inputs has increased the cost of livestock production. As a result, the livelihoods of herders have become more vulnerable to climate variability and change. Sedentary grazing is the formal institutional arrangement in Inner… Continue reading Exploratory analyses of local institutions for climate change adaptation in the Mongolian grasslands: An agent-based modeling approach
Market Impacts on Land-Use Change: An Agent-Based Experiment
Land-use change in a market economy, particularly at the urban?rural fringe in North America, is shaped through land and housing markets. Although market activities are at the core of economic studies of land-use change, many market elements are neglected by coupled human?environment models. We scrutinized the effects of the level of detail of market representation… Continue reading Market Impacts on Land-Use Change: An Agent-Based Experiment
Agent-based and analytical modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of greenbelts
We present several models of residential development at the rural–urban fringe to evaluate the effectiveness of a greenbelt located beside a developed area, for delaying development outside the greenbelt. First, we develop a mathematical model, under two assumptions about the distributions of service centers, that represents the trade-off between greenbelt placement and width, their effects… Continue reading Agent-based and analytical modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of greenbelts
Path dependence and the validation of agent-based spatial models of land use
In this paper, we identify two distinct notions of accuracy of land-use models and highlight a tension between them. A model can have predictive accuracy: its predicted land-use pattern can be highly correlated with the actual land-use pattern. A model can also have process accuracy: the process by which locations or land-use patterns are determined… Continue reading Path dependence and the validation of agent-based spatial models of land use