A review of agent‐based modeling of climate‐energy policy

Castro, Juana; Drews, Stefan; Exadaktylos, Filippos; Foramitti, Joël; Klein, Franziska; Konc, Théo; Savin, Ivan; Bergh, Jeroen van den

doi:10.1002/wcc.647

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“…Agent-based modelling is one technique to overcome restrictive assumptions of traditional models and to comprehensively incorporate relevant boundedly-rational and socially-interactive behaviours as well as heterogeneity in the context of ETR. These models have seen considerable application to climate policy (Castro et al, 2020), but not been systematically used to answer questions about a DD of an ETR. In future work we intend to elaborate some of the ideas exposed here along these lines.…”

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The employment double dividend of environmental tax reforms: exploring the role of agent behaviour and social interaction

Klein

Bergh

2020

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

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It has been long debated whether environmental tax reform (ETR), i.e. a revenueneutral shift of the tax burden from labour to carbon emissions, can have a double dividend, in terms of climate and economic goals. So far this question has been addressed in public finance and environmental economics using models with rational and representative agents. Here we examine the relevance of deviating from these standard behavioural assumptions. Our motivation is that research from other fields indicates that impacts of both environmental and income taxation on households are sensitive to behavioural biases, such as habits, imitation or status seeking. A related feature is that consumers and firms are heterogeneous with respect to many characteristics, some of which are crucial for the distributional effects of a tax reform. We combine insights from social psychology and behavioural, evolutionary and labour economics to identify behavioural cases in which the impacts of an ETR is likely to differ significantly from those in the traditional framework. Our findings show that households' time use patterns and the distinction between extensive and intensive labour supply are relevant and deserve more attention.

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Section: Results Of Behavioural Casesmentioning

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The employment double dividend of environmental tax reforms: exploring the role of agent behaviour and social interaction

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Bergh

2020

Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

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“…An additional study was included following the suggestion of an annonymous reviewer. The final set is cited in references [103][104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113].…”

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Agent-based modeling and simulation in the research of environmental sustainability. A bibliography

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Pecheanu

2021

Present Environment and Sustainable Development

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In the context of the alarming news about climate changes, resource depletion, ecological disasters, and demographic trends, the interest of the researchers and the scientific literature on topics related to sustainability grew exponentially in the past two decades. In 2020 only, the number of publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) having the keywords “sustainability” or “sustainable development” in the topic was higher than 42,000. Facing this flood of literature, the present work aims to ease the effort of locating relevant studies about the applications of Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) in the research of environmental sustainability. This goal is accomplished by: (a) providing a comprehensive bibliography of recent relevant articles on this topic, (b) identifying the most popular domains of application of ABMS in this field, and (c) building a list of the available simulation tools. We found that most of the selected studies (52%) are designed for management related acticities (decision support, policy making etc.), the application domain addressed by the largest number of articles (27%) is agriculture and related activities (pastoralism, hunting, fishery, and forestry), and the most popular simulation platform is NetLogo (15%).

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“…And the requirements of modeling in the service of decision making would provide feedback that encourages theory to engage with decisions of great consequence and urgency. 40,130 A special challenge will be to build cumulative knowledge by better integration of insights from public and elite surveys, survey-based experiments, quantitative and qualitative analysis of previous successes and failures in promoting and implementing initiatives, and theoretical analyses. For example, surveys and survey-based experiments can provide substantial insights into public acceptability of various types of initiatives and thus help guide initiative design.…”

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Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

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Limiting global warming to 2 C or less compared with pre-industrial temperatures will require unprecedented rates of decarbonization globally. The scale and scope of transformational change required across sectors and actors in society raises critical questions of feasibility. Much of the literature on mitigation pathways addresses technological and economic aspects of feasibility, but overlooks the behavioral, cultural, and social factors that affect theoretical and practical mitigation pathways. We present a tripartite framework that ''unpacks'' the concept of mitigation pathways by distinguishing three factors that together determine actual mitigation: technical potential, initiative feasibility, and behavioral plasticity. The framework aims to integrate and streamline heterogeneous disciplinary research traditions toward a more comprehensive and transparent approach that will facilitate learning across disciplines and enable mitigation pathways to more fully reflect available knowledge. We offer three suggestions for integrating the tripartite framework into current research on climate change mitigation.

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A review of agent‐based modeling of climate‐energy policy

Cited by 66 publications

References 147 publications

The employment double dividend of environmental tax reforms: exploring the role of agent behaviour and social interaction

The employment double dividend of environmental tax reforms: exploring the role of agent behaviour and social interaction

Agent-based modeling and simulation in the research of environmental sustainability. A bibliography

Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

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