Network Effects on Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Modeling Human and Nature Dynamics
Patrick Neal, Zining Yang and Mark Abdollahian
Abstract:
In the context of sustainable development, complex adaptive systems frameworks can help address the coupling of macro social, environmental and economic constraint and opportunity with individual agency. Using a simple evolutionary game approach, we fuse endogenously derived socio-economic system dynamics from human and nature dynamics (HANDY) theory with Prisoner’s Dilemma spatial intra-societal economic transactions. We then explore the potential of spectral information from the social network adjacency matrices to predict synchronization dynamics.