Marcos Canales
University of Technology SydneyPontifical Catholic University of Chile
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PhD(c)
| Subject Areas: | Socio-Hydrology, Agent-Based Modelling, Groundwater Modelling, Water Management |
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ABSTRACT:
Understanding how society can address and mitigate threats to groundwater sustainability remains a pressing challenge in the Anthropocene era. This article presents the first comprehensive and critical review of coupling Groundwater Models and Agent-Based Models (GW-ABMs) to address four key challenges: (1) adequately representing human behaviour, (2) capturing spatial and temporal variations, (3) integrating two-way feedback loops between social and physical systems, and (4) incorporating water governance structures. Our findings indicate a growing effort to model bounded rationality in human behaviour (Challenge 1 or C1) and a dominant focus on policy applications (C4). Future research should address data scarcity issues through Epstein’s Backward approach (C2), capture feedbacks via tele-coupled GW-ABMs, and explore other modelling techniques like Analytic Elements Groundwater Models (C3). We conclude with recommendations to thrust future GW-ABMs to the highest standards, aiming to enhance their acceptance and impact in decision-making and policy formulation for sustainable groundwater management. This resource represents the literature review database for the article: Marcos Canales, Juan Castilla-Rho, Rodrigo Rojas, Sebastian Vicuna, James Ball, Agent-based models of groundwater systems: A review of an emerging approach to simulate the interactions between groundwater and society, Environmental Modelling and Software (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.105980
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Created: Sept. 25, 2023, 12:32 a.m.
Authors: Canales, Marcos Alejandro · Castilla-Rho, Juan · Rodrigo Rojas · Sebastian Vicuña · James Ball
ABSTRACT:
Understanding how society can address and mitigate threats to groundwater sustainability remains a pressing challenge in the Anthropocene era. This article presents the first comprehensive and critical review of coupling Groundwater Models and Agent-Based Models (GW-ABMs) to address four key challenges: (1) adequately representing human behaviour, (2) capturing spatial and temporal variations, (3) integrating two-way feedback loops between social and physical systems, and (4) incorporating water governance structures. Our findings indicate a growing effort to model bounded rationality in human behaviour (Challenge 1 or C1) and a dominant focus on policy applications (C4). Future research should address data scarcity issues through Epstein’s Backward approach (C2), capture feedbacks via tele-coupled GW-ABMs, and explore other modelling techniques like Analytic Elements Groundwater Models (C3). We conclude with recommendations to thrust future GW-ABMs to the highest standards, aiming to enhance their acceptance and impact in decision-making and policy formulation for sustainable groundwater management. This resource represents the literature review database for the article: Marcos Canales, Juan Castilla-Rho, Rodrigo Rojas, Sebastian Vicuna, James Ball, Agent-based models of groundwater systems: A review of an emerging approach to simulate the interactions between groundwater and society, Environmental Modelling and Software (2024), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.105980