In a rapidly changing world, ecology has the potential to move from empirical and
conceptual stages to application and management issues. It is now possible to make large …

Pioneer naturalists such as Whewell, Lyell, Humboldt, Darwin and Wallace acknowledged
the interactions between ecological and evolutionary forces, as well as the roles of …

The increasing integration of technology into our lives has created unprecedented volumes
of data on society's everyday behaviour. Such data opens up exciting new opportunities to …

Most research on the effect of ethnicity on economic and political outcomes is driven by the"
primordialist" assumption that ethnic identities are fixed. But" constructivist" research across …

Understanding social-ecological systems (SES) is crucial to supporting the sustainable
management of resources. Agent-based modelling is a valuable tool to achieve this …

Societal transitions involve multiple actors, changes in institutions, values and technologies,
and interactions across multiple sectors and scales. Given this complexity, this paper takes …

This book has emerged through years of discussions, comments and questions we have
received about building agentbased models and integrating geographical information …

Este trabajo compara dos técnicas de modelado de sistemas complejos: la simulación
basada en agentes y la dinámica de sistemas. Esta comparación se lleva a cabo dentro del …

This paper provides an overview on the impact of agent-based models in the social
sciences. It focuses on the reasons why agent-based models are seen as important …

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model which integrates four important elements,
ie organisational energy management policies/regulations, energy management …