Social simulation: A method to investigate environmental change from a social science perspective

Environmental Sociology: European Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 109-122

  Ernst, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Modeling; Social interaction; Social science methodology; Social simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884530895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8730-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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