AAG 2019 CFP: Agent-Based Modeling of Human-Environment Interactions

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
April 3-7, 2019, Washington, DC, USA

"Agent-Based Modeling of Human-Environment Interactions"

ORGANIZERS:
Nicholas Magliocca, Department of Geography, University of Alabama
Tom Evans, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona

Call For Abstracts:
Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a maturing method applied across a diverse range of disciplines and topics. The broad uptake of ABMs is in part due the need to understand how individual-level attributes, motivations, and decision-making processes produce regional, sectoral, or population-level outcomes. Such understanding is critical for informing policy or management interventions of human-environment interactions to achieve desirable, aggregate outcomes, such as more sustainable natural resource consumption and/or reducing vulnerability. The aim of this session is to bring together researchers using ABM techniques (and associated methodologies) to discuss topics relating to theory, methodological issues, and novel application domains related to human-environment interactions.
Examples of salient themes and/or ABM application frontier could include:

• Implementation and representation of decision-making theories
• Incorporating social network analysis and representation in spatial ABMs
• Integrating ABMs with large-scale, equilibrium-based models (e.g., integrated assessment models, energy markets)
• Emergence of cooperation in natural resource management systems
• Using ABMs to support cross-site comparison and synthesis
• Visualization of ABM dynamics and results
• Participatory modeling and simulation
• ABM Applications: Ranging from the micro to macro scale, theoretical to empirical

Please e-mail the abstract and keywords with your expression of intent to Nicholas Magliocca (nrmagliocca@ua.edu) or Tom Evans (tomevans@email.ua.edu) by October 17, 2018. Please make sure that your abstract conforms to the AAG guidelines in relation to title, word limit and key words and as specified at http://annualmeeting.aag.org/submit_an_abstract. An abstract should be no more than 250 words that describes the presentation's purpose, methods, and conclusions as well as to include keywords. Full submissions will be given priority over submissions with just a paper title.

SPONSORS: Spatial Analysis and Modeling, Geographic Information Systems and Science, Human Dimensions of Global Change