Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the European Social Simulation Association and its special interest groups on spatial and ecological-economic issues and on societal transition, please be invited to contribute to a special session on adaptive behaviour, social interactions and societal transition through global environmental change: an agent-based perspective.

Venue: Warsaw, Poland – Deadline: 1 March 2013 – More information: http://essa2013.org – general call for papers: http://essa2013.org/essa2013_cfp.pdf

I hope to see you there!

Émile

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ESSA 2013: 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association
Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, September 16-20, 2013

Thematic session of the ESSA SIG-SEE (Special Interest Group on Spatial and Ecological-Economic issues):

TITLE: "Adaptive behaviour, social interactions and societal transition through global environmental change: an agent-based perspective "

ORGANIZERS: Tatiana Filatova, Rianne van Duinen, Gary Polhill and Emile Chappin

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The impact of global environmental change on human activity is growing. The co-evolving interactions of individuals, their societies and the environments they inhabit largely determines the resilience of coupled socio-ecological systems. People’s attitudes towards, for example, climate change adaptation and mitigation are not static over time. Agents perceive climate change, its impacts, effectiveness of mitigation and adaptation measures, and constantly exchange this information through interactions within their social network. Understanding the role of social interactions in explaining changes in individuals’ attitudes towards global environmental change and their consequent behaviour is crucial since they cumulatively determine the vulnerability and resilience of a society at an aggregate level. This session invites papers that demonstrate the application of agent-based modelling to address this topic including some of the following aspects:

• Feedbacks between social and environmental systems in the context of global environmental change;
• Individual behavioural changes in spatial and environmental agent-based models;
• The role of social interactions, their frequency, and social network layering and topology in environmental or spatial agent-based models;
• Behavioural change as a switch in choices and strategies or as a change in individual preferences and perceptions; Learning and endogenously changing behavioural rules in response to global environmental change;
• Challenges with empirical modelling;
• Aggregation of individual adaptive behaviours and social interactions for integrated models of societal transitions through global environmental change. 
• Resilience and adaptation of societal systems

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Dr.ir. Émile J.L. Chappin

Post-doctoral researcher, Delft University of Technology
Visiting researcher, Wuppertal Institute
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Mobile: +31 61 787 6731

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Visiting Address: Room a3.300, Jaffalaan 5, Delft, the Netherlands
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Visiting Address: Room 4.02, Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
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