Executive Summary This Environmental and Climate Change Policy Brief has been written as an input to the Poverty and Development Assessment that Sida is undertaking as part of the preparation of a revised Swedish cooperation strategy with Zambia. It aims at briefly presenting key environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities (including climate change and disaster risk reduction) in ...

Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for successful environmental management. Agent-based modelling on a computer has the potential to build a practical theory of intervention in this and related contexts. Potentially we can compare real intervention strategies with those an agent-based model suggests and hence obtain new insights and guidelines of ...

We consider a model of non-renewable resource extraction where players do not know their opponents’ utility functions and form conjectures on the behavior of others. Two forms of beliefs are introduced, one based on the state of the resource, the other on this state and on the others’ strategy (their consumption). We focus on consistent equilibria, where beliefs must be consistent with observed...

In den Projekten QUALIDADE (Qualitative Modeling in Domain of Automated Diagnosis and Ecology) und MERMAID (Model-based Environmental Resource Management Aid), die an der TU München koordiniert werden, werden modellbasierte Techniken erweitert und angewendet, um die Entscheidungsunterstützung im Umweltbereich zu verbessern. Dabei werden die Ökosysteme, ein Fluß in Südbrasilien bzw. Mangrovenwäl...

During a major incident, the emergency services work together to ensure that those casualties who are critically injured are identified and transported to an appropriate hospital as fast as possible. If the incident is multi-site and resources are limited, the efficiency of this process is compromised as the finite resources must be shared among the multiple sites. In this paper, agent-based si...