Successes and failures of attempts to embed socioeconomic dimensions in modeling for integrated natural resource management: Lessons from Thailand

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Ekasingh, B ^a   Letcher, R A ^b  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Integrated natural resource modeling; Socioeconomic analysis; Systems approach

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; BIOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; MODELING APPROACH; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; POLICY MAKERS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RESOURCE ECONOMISTS; RESOURCE MODELING; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS; SOCIAL THEORY; SOCIOECONOMIC ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS; SYSTEMS APPROACH; SYSTEMS THINKING; THAILAND; TOPDOWN;

ECONOMICS; INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79952036840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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