Product Description: This instructional book showcases techniques to parameterise human agents in empirical agent-based models (ABM). In doing so, it provides a timely overview of key ABM methodologies and the most innovative approaches through a variety of empirical applications...read more

Product Description: ​This Brief provides a cross-sectional analysis of development-directed investments in the wider Mekong region. The wider Mekong region includes Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and the Chinese province of Yunnan. Evidence highlights that a few critical dynamics, including human migration, natural resource flows, and financial investments, generate a high level of connectivity between these countries...read more

Product Description: In climate change policy the European Commission attempts to implement a new instrument intended to facilitate the accomplishment of the Kyoto targets. The proposal for a directive from 23rd October 2001 puts this concept in concrete terms: A legally binding emissions trading system applied to selected installations is to be introduced at the start of 2005...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)