03448nam 2200601 a 450 991043794760332120200520144314.01-283-69764-53-642-32365-010.1007/978-3-642-32365-2(CKB)2670000000279508(EBL)1030270(OCoLC)820329433(SSID)ssj0000789366(PQKBManifestationID)11957412(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000789366(PQKBWorkID)10726196(PQKB)11260878(DE-He213)978-3-642-32365-2(MiAaPQ)EBC1030270(PPN)231887965(EXLCZ)99267000000027950820121025d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgent-based simulation of vulnerability dynamics a case study of the German North Sea Coast /Cilli Sobiech1st ed. 2013.Heidelberg Springer20131 online resource (231 p.)Springer theses : recognizing outstanding Ph.D. research,2190-5053Description based upon print version of record.3-642-43326-X 3-642-32364-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Research Design -- Theoretical Research Framework -- Regional Research Framework -- System Analysis -- Reflexion.The thesis constitutes an extraordinary innovative research approach in transferring the concepts and methods of complex systems to risk research. It ambitiously bridges the barriers between theoretical, empirical and methodical research work and integrates these fields into one comprehensive approach of dealing with uncertainty in socio-ecological systems. The developed agent-based simulation aims at the dynamics of social vulnerability in the considered system of the Cerman North Sea Coast. Thus, the social simulation provides an analytical method to explore the individual, relational, and spatial aspects leading to dynamics of vulnerability in society. Combining complexity science and risk research by the method of agent-based simulation hereby emphasizes the importance of understanding interrelations inside the system for the system's development, i.e. for the evolving. Based on a vulnerability assessment regarding vulnerability characteristics, present risk behavior and self-protection preferences of private households against the impacts of flooding and storm surges, possible system trajectories could be explored by means of simulation experiments. The system-analytical approach therefore contributes to an integrated consideration of multi-dimensional and context-sensitv social phenomena such as vulnerability. Furthermore it achieves conceptually and strategically relevant implications for risk research and complex systems research.Springer theses.Social systemsComputer simulationTechnologySocial aspectsGermanyNorth Sea CoastSocial systemsComputer simulation.TechnologySocial aspects551.489Sobiech Cilli1062466MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910437947603321Agent-Based Simulation of Vulnerability Dynamics2525757UNINA