Year-2023

ABSESpy is an innovative agent-based modeling framework designed to improve the fidelity of socio-ecological systems research by integrating complex decision-making, scaling, and data integration through its Branch-Leaf architecture. Its capabilities in modeling human behavior and accommodating diverse temporal scales make it a vital tool for addressing existing gaps in SES research and enhancing the applicability of ABMs to real-world issues.

In the Yellow River Basin, the underlying causes of regime shifts were increasing water supply and demand before the governance transformation and re-allocation and regulation after the change. The IWGI offers a comprehensive and straightforward approach to linking water governance regimes to sustainability, providing valuable insights into hydrosocial transitions.

We employ a Differenced Synthetic Control method to assess the impacts of the institutional shifts. Our analysis suggests that the 87-WAS unexpectedly increased water use by 5.75%, while the 98-UBR successfully reduced water use as anticipated.

An agent-based model was developed around the Yellow River’s most far-reaching water quota institution during the past half century, considering how factors such as human behaviour and environmental change have combined with the institutional shifts to lead to changes in the Yellow River’s water use.