Social dynamics of littering and adaptive cleaning strategies explored using agent-based modelling

JASSS

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Rangoni, Ruggero ^a   Jager, Wander ^b  

^a Groningen Center of Social Complexity Studies ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Goal framing theory; Littering; Norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016996869     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.3269     Document Type: Article

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