TY - GEN
T1 - An agent-based model for exploring land market mechanisms for coastal zone management
AU - Filatova, Tatiana
AU - Van Der Veen, Anne
AU - Voinov, Alexey
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper presents an agent-based model of a land market (ALMA-C) to simulate the emergence of land prices and urban land patterns from bottom-up. Our model mimics individual decisions to buy and to sell land depending on economic, sociological and political factors as well as on the characteristics of the spatial environment. To this we add ecological and environmental considerations and focus on the question of how individual land use decisions can be affected to reduce the pressure on the coastal zone ecosystem functions. A series of model experiments helps visualize and explore how economic incentives at a land market can influence the spatial distribution of activities and land prices in a coastal zone. We demonstrate that economic incentives do affect urban form and pattern, land prices and welfare measures. However, they may not always be sufficient to reduce the pressure on coastal zone ecosystems.
AB - This paper presents an agent-based model of a land market (ALMA-C) to simulate the emergence of land prices and urban land patterns from bottom-up. Our model mimics individual decisions to buy and to sell land depending on economic, sociological and political factors as well as on the characteristics of the spatial environment. To this we add ecological and environmental considerations and focus on the question of how individual land use decisions can be affected to reduce the pressure on the coastal zone ecosystem functions. A series of model experiments helps visualize and explore how economic incentives at a land market can influence the spatial distribution of activities and land prices in a coastal zone. We demonstrate that economic incentives do affect urban form and pattern, land prices and welfare measures. However, they may not always be sufficient to reduce the pressure on coastal zone ecosystems.
KW - Agent-based modelling
KW - Coastal zone ecosystems
KW - Land market mechanisms
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858330890
SN - 9788476530740
T3 - Proc. iEMSs 4th Biennial Meeting - Int. Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, iEMSs 2008
SP - 792
EP - 799
BT - Proc. iEMSs 4th Biennial Meeting - Int. Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software Integrating Science andInformation Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, iEMSs 2008
T2 - 4th Biennial Meeting of International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making, iEMSs 2008
Y2 - 7 July 2008 through 10 July 2008
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