An introduction to behavioral economics

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Explaining Social Behaviour: More on Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

DARWIN AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict

Thucydides Peloponnesian War

The Economics of Agricultural Development. World Food Systems and Resource Use

Growth in World’s population, the expansion of human activities and the demand for land has and continues to damage the natural environment. Humans depend on the natural environment for essential life-preserving processes, for example food production. Damage to the environment has serious consequences for national (State) and human security and wellbeing. One concern is food security and, in particular, whether a growing World population will find enough food to eat. The consequences of using more land and resources to grow more food are an important area of research. The expansion of farming will leave less land for other important uses. A proposed solution to this land use problem is sustainable intensification: growing more food on less land with either the same, or a reduced environmental impact. On a purely technical level, sustainable intensification appears to offer a solution to food insecurity and environmental damage. However, the adoption of agricultural technologies such as sustainable intensification is influenced by ‘social forces’ which need to be considered. We are developing a hierarchical model that uses two ‘social forces’ as decision drivers: economics at the landowner level and security at the State level. In our prototype model, State security restricts the economic decisions of landowners. The purpose of the model is to understand the effect sustainable intensification has on land use patterns, when their distribution and quantity depend on State food-security in a global context.

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An agent-based model for studying the effects of sustainable intensification on food security in the nation State

Using an Agent-Based Model with a two-scale decision making process incorporating economic, geographic, social and political subsystems, we projected the rate and proportion of land use change in E...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14735903.2021.1907991

James A. Reilly

Papers

An agent-based model for studying the effects of sustainable intensification on food security in the nation State

Projecting the effect of crop yield increases, dietary change and different price scenarios on land use under two different state security regimes