Agent-based Socio-hydrological Hybrid Modeling for Water Resource Management
J. Bakarji, V.V. Vesselinov, D. O’Malley
Water Resources Management2017DOI 10.1007/s11269-017-1713-7
Summary
This paper presents a simple agent-based socio-hydrological decision framework that couples social behavior with groundwater contamination dynamics. It shows that optimizing around social health risk, rather than contaminant concentration alone, can improve water-management decisions while preserving enough simplicity and flexibility for broader environmental decision-support applications.