Please distribute the attached call for papers for a special issue of
the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. Apologies for cross-
postings.
Call for papers
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics – 2009 Special issue
“Computational Economics: Applications in Agriculture, Bio-resources
and the Environment”
Editors: J. Nolan, D. Parker and R. Schoney.
The Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics intends to publish a
special issue in November 2009 on applications of modern
computational economics to the environment, the agricultural and
forestry sectors, and natural resources more broadly. The intended
focus of the computational methods to be considered is in the areas
of agent-based modeling, optimal control (e.g., dynamic programming,
fuzzy programming), soft and rough computing, cellular automata,
system dynamics, solution methods, and simulation approaches. Papers
that focus on econometric solutions to the exclusion of other
techniques will receive lower priority.
Motivation: Forty-five years ago, there were relatively few
statisticians/econometricians using computers in applied research.
The modern field of econometrics grew out of a major revolution in
personal computing power and the development of user accessible
software. While computational econometrics is now well established in
agricultural and natural resource economics, the field of
computational economics has emerged more recently (or re-emerged in
the case of mathematical programming methods) as a result of rapid
advances in personal hardware and software computing capabilities.
This means that a variety of inherently complex economic processes
that were not hitherto amenable to analytic study can now be modeled
and examined in a meaningful fashion.
Complex economic processes are generally characterized by individual
and environmental heterogeneity combined with feedbacks between
economic decision makers as well as their environment, potentially
also crossing spatial and temporal scales. In turn, complex processes
often lead to analytical intractability. Traditional equilibrium-
based modeling approaches become less attractive because of the
presence of non-linearities, critical mass, thresholds, bifurcations,
etc. For the special issue, we encourage authors to submit papers
that primarily rely on computational and/or simulation methods to
investigate the behaviours of complex economic processes in
agricultural, environmental and resource economics.
Authors wishing to submit papers for the special issue should inform
the managing editor of the CJAE ([log in to unmask]) regarding their
intentions by submitting an abstract on or before 31 March 2008. Full
papers are due in the CJAE editorial office by 30 September 2008.
They will then undergo peer review, with final decisions regarding
which papers will appear in the special issue to be made by 31 March
2009.
Dawn Cassandra Parker
Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Social Science,
Kransnow Institute for Advanced Study; Affiliate, Departments of
Environmental Science and Policy, Geography, and Geoinformation and
Earth Systems Science
George Mason University
374 Research 1
4400 University Drive, MS 6B2
Fairfax, VA, USA 22030
+1-703-993-4640 (phone)
+1-703-993-9290 (fax)
dparker3 at gmu dot edu
http://mason.gmu.edu/~dparker3
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