A spatial agent-based model to explore scenarios of adaptation to climate change in an alpine tourism destination

Modelling for Environment's Sake: Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, iEMSs 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 700-707

  Balbi, Stefano ^a   Perez, Pascal ^b,d   Giupponi, Carlo ^a,c  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI   (Italy)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpine winter tourism; Climate change adaptation; Spatial agent based model

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SNOW;

ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGES; ALPINE WINTER TOURISMS; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; ECONOMIC TIME SERIES; EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT; SPATIAL AGENT-BASED MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84858685365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1566861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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