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An Agent-based Simulation Model of Human–environment Interactions in Agricultural Systems by Pepijn Schreinemachers; Thomas Berger is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is An Agent-based Simulation Model of Human–environment Interactions in Agricultural Systems about?
This paper describes an agent-based software package, called Mathematical Programming-based Multi Agent Systems (MP-MAS), which builds on a tradition of using constrained optimization to simulate farm decision-making in agricultural systems. The purpose of MP-MAS is to understand how agricultural technology, market dynamics, environmental change, and policy intervention affect a heterogeneous population of farm households and the agro-ecological resources these households command. The software is presented using the Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) protocol. Modeling features are demonstrated with empirical applications to study sites in Chile, Germany, Ghana, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam. We compare MP-MAS with eight other simulators of humaneenvironment interactions (ABSTRACT, CATCHSCAPE, ECECMOD, IMT, LUDAS, PALM, SAM, and SIM). The comparison shows that the uniqueness of MP-MAS lies in its combination of a microeconomic modeling approach and a choice of alternative biophysical modules that are either coded as part of the software or coupled with it using the Typed Data Transfer (TDT) library.
Who reads An Agent-based Simulation Model of Human–environment Interactions in Agricultural Systems?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- Pepijn Schreinemachers; Thomas Berger
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1364-8152)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)