Simulating institutional heterogeneity in sustainability science.

ABSTRACT: Sustainability outcomes are influenced by the laws and configurations of natural and engineered systems as well as activities in socio-economic systems. An important subset of human activity is the creation and implementation of institutions, formal and informal rules shaping a wide range of human behavior. Understanding these rules and codifying them in computational models can provide important missing insights into why systems function the way they do (static) as well as the pace and structure of transitions required to improve sustainability (dynamic). Here, we conduct a comparative synthesis of three modeling approaches- integrated assessment modeling, engineering-economic optimization, and agent-based modeling-with underexplored potential to represent institutions. We first perform m

SUBMITTER: Davidson MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10895347 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature