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Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities - Insights from Agent-Based Modeling (Paperback)
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Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities - Insights from Agent-Based Modeling (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Public Administration and Environmental Sustainability
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As the study of environmental policy and justice becomes
increasingly significant in today's global climate, standard
statistical approaches to gathering data have become less helpful
at generating new insights and possibilities. None of the
conventional frameworks easily allow for the empirical modeling of
the interactions of all the actors involved, or for the emergence
of outcomes unintended by the actors. The existing frameworks
account for the "what," but not for the "why." Heather E. Campbell,
Yushim Kim, and Adam Eckerd bring an innovative perspective to
environmental justice research. Their approach adjusts the narrower
questions often asked in the study of environmental justice,
expanding to broader investigations of how and why environmental
inequities occur. Using agent-based modeling (ABM), they study the
interactions and interdependencies among different agents such as
firms, residents, and government institutions. Through simulation,
the authors test underlying assumptions in environmental justice
and discover ways to modify existing theories to better explain why
environmental injustice occurs. Furthermore, they use ABM to
generate empirically testable hypotheses, which they employ to
check if their simulated findings are supported in the real world
using real data. The pioneering research on environmental justice
in this text will have effects on the field of environmental policy
as a whole. For social science and policy researchers, this book
explores how to employ new and experimental methods of inquiry on
challenging social problems, and for the field of environmental
justice, the authors demonstrate how ABM helps illuminate the
complex social and policy interactions that lead to both
environmental justice and injustice.
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