The transition towards carbon-neutral energy systems requires the identification of solutions that are optimal at a societal level, however, market actors operate under different logic where each individual investment option is required to show business-economic feasibility. Thus, while there system analysis modelling tools can help identify paths for given society in general through minimisati...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of social modelling, and in particular a general introduction to and insight into the potential role and usefulness of microsimulation in analysing public policy. Despite having made a major contribution to the development of tax and cash transfer policies, there are many important areas of government policy to which microsimulation has not yet be...

Lower extremity artery disease (LEAD) is a sign of wide spread atherosclerosis also affecting coronary, cerebral and renal arteries and is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events. Many economic evaluations have been published for LEAD due to its clinical, social and economic importance. The aim of this systematic review was to assess modelling methods used in published economic ...

Modelling in Urban and Regional Planning has an eclectic history – drawing from economics, engineering, geography, physics, and many other fields. These various influences have been a great strength, providing cross-fertilization of ideas and helping to prevent practitioners from getting stuck in methodological or ideological ruts. However, it has also hindered the establishment of a strong sha...

During the last decades the inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth in the UK have grown and led to an increasing socio-economic polarisation and dualism (Atkinson, 1996; Hills, 1996; Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1995). Although average real incomes have grown significantly, at the bottom of the scale there has been little or no rise in real income. In contrast, top incomes have ri...

“Social Choice: Recent Developments” Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to the fore. This article provides an overview of some of the recent contributions to four topics in normative social ...

Agent-based models are important tools for simulating farmers’ behaviour in response to changing environmental, economic or institutional conditions and policies. This article introduces an agent-based modelling approach that combines behavioural factors with standard bio-economic of agricultural production. More specifically, our framework integrates the cumulative prospect theory social inter...

in the last two decades, digital divide, defined as the gap between the people who can access pcs and internet and those who cannot, has been proposed as one of the biggest challenges of digital age. considering that the economic, cultural, social, and political by-products of such a gap are viewed by many scholars to be more damaging than traditional gaps, the present research strives to detec...