From actors to agents in socio-ecological systems models

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1586, 2012, Pages 259-269

  Rounsevell, M D A ^a   Robinson, D T ^a   Murray Rust, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Decision making processes; Human behaviour; Social survey; Socio ecological systems; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 82755162204     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0187     Document Type: Review

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