MEASURING SOLIDARITY IN AGENT-BASED MODELS OF RESOURCE SHARING SITUATIONS

Pieter W. G. Bots (), Olivier Barreteau () and Geraldine Abrami ()
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Pieter W. G. Bots: Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, PO Box 5015, NL-2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
Olivier Barreteau: UMR G-EAU, Cemagref, 361 rue JF Breton, BP 5095, 34196 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Geraldine Abrami: UMR G-EAU, Cemagref, 361 rue JF Breton, BP 5095, 34196 Montpellier Cedex 05, France

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2008, vol. 11, issue 02, 337-356

Abstract: In this paper we present a first attempt to represent the social behavior of actors in a resource sharing context in such a way that different forms of solidarity can be detected and measured. We expect that constructing agent-based models of water-related interactions at the interface of urban and rural areas, and running social simulations to study the occurrence and consequences of solidary behavior, will produce insights that may eventually contribute to water and land resource management practice. We propose a typology for solidary behavior, present the agent-based architecture that we are using, show some illustrative results, and formulate some questions that will guide our future work.

Keywords: Concern; social simulation; solidarity; typology; utility; value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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