A hybrid optimization-agent-based model of REDD+ payments to households on an old deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon

West, Thales A. P.; Grogan, Kelly A.; Swisher, Marilyn E.; Caviglia‐Harris, Jill L.; Sills, Erin O.; Harris, Daniel; Roberts, Dar A.; Putz, Francis E.

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.11.007

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“…However, the collection and access to disaggregated (local) socioeconomic data is another matter. Hence, with some exceptions including agent-based modeling methods (Valbuena et al 2010, Murray-Rust et al 2014, West et al 2018, grid-based models coupled with agro-economic PE or CGE models are currently at the frontier of global and regional GLG-LUCC analyses. By integrating local biophysical, economic, and institutional information into a global framework, complex gridded models-developed by large research institutes and teams of collaborators-represent the most suitable approach to explore both the global dri-…”

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A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics, economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability studies, and can only be properly analyzed at fine-scales that capture local biophysical and socio-economic conditions. When sufficiently widespread, local feedback to stresses originating from global drivers can have regional, national, and even global impacts. A multiscale, global-to-local-to-global (GLG) framework is thus needed for comprehensive analyses of LUCC and leakage. The number of GLG-LUCC studies has grown substantially over the past years, but no reviews of this literature and their contributions have been completed so far. In fact, the largest body of literature pertains to global-to-local impacts exclusively, whereas research on local feedback to regional, national, and global spheres remain scarce, and are almost solely undertaken within large modeling institutes. As such, those are rarely readily accessible for modification and extension by outside contributors. This review of the recent GLG-LUCC studies calls for more open-source modeling and availability of data, arguing that the latter is the real constraint to more widespread analyses of GLG-LUCC impacts. Progress in this field will require contributions from hundreds of researchers around the world and from a wide variety of disciplines.

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A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…In the area of environmental sciences, West et al [53] have analyzed the importance of cost increase and revenue decrease in the case of agriculture and deforestation. The authors have presented a case study on a land located near an old deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon.…”

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Modeling the Consumers Opinion Influence in Online Social Media in the Case of Eco-friendly Products

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Social influence has a positive impact on the purchase intention for eco-friendly products along with other subjective and objective aspects related to environmental attitude, product attitude, and subjective and objective knowledge. Also, exposure to media has been proven to have a significant positive affect on environmental attitude, with effect on the purchase intention. Several recent studies have shown the importance of consumers’ influence in online social networks, underlying the role played by the online environments over consumers’ attitude. As a result, the current research tries to analyze the influence exerted on consumers’ decision to purchase eco-friendly products by their activity in online social environments. Using a questionnaire, filled-in by 409 respondents, a series of variables have been extracted with regard to the eco-friendly products. An agent-based model has been created, fed with the values of the variables extracted from the questionnaire, and used for simulations. As a result, it has been observed that an increase in online media exposure can have a high positive impact on the eco-friendly product adoption. Depending on the type of product—soft or durable good—different times for the eco-friendly product adoption have been determined relatively to the considered variables. Last, the possible limitations of using an agent-based modeling approach are discussed, along with possible extensions and improvements.

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“…Choosing the agent-based modeling (ABM) as a tool for presenting and analyzing the human behavior has been the first choice for a series of researches in the field of transportation [37,38], emergency situations behavior and crowd movements [39,40], healthcare research [41,42], environmental sciences [43,44], social sciences [45], etc. As for the agent-based modeling tools, all the previously mentioned researches have used NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/), as it provides a comprehensive interface, real-time visualization of agents' actions, a good documentation, basic programming skills, integrated geographic information system (GIS) functionality, integrated graphics, and a good execution speed [46].…”

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A Two-Door Airplane Boarding Approach When Using Apron Buses

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Boarding is one of the major processes of airplane turnaround time, with a direct influence on the airline companies’ costs. From a sustainable point of view, a faster completion of the boarding process has impact not only on the airline company’s long-term performance, but also on customers’ satisfaction and on the airport’s possibility of offering more services without additional investments in new infrastructure. Considering the airplane boarding strategies literature, it can be observed that the latest papers are dealing with developing faster boarding strategies, most of them considering boarding using just one-door of the aircraft. Even though boarding on one-door might be feasible for the airports having the needed infrastructure and sufficient jet-bridges, the situation is different in European airports, as the use of apron buses is fairly common. Moreover, some of the airline companies have adapted their boarding pass in order to reflect which door one should board once they get down from the bus. While using these buses, the boarding strategies developed in the literature are hard to find their applicability. Thus, a new method for boarding on two-door airplanes when apron buses are used is proposed and tested against the actual boarding method. A model is created in NetLogo 6.0.4, taking advantages of the agent-based modeling and used for simulations. The results show a boarding time reduction of 8.91%.

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A hybrid optimization-agent-based model of REDD+ payments to households on an old deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon

Cited by 21 publications

References 73 publications

A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

Modeling the Consumers Opinion Influence in Online Social Media in the Case of Eco-friendly Products

A Two-Door Airplane Boarding Approach When Using Apron Buses

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