The PEARL institutional ABM simulating authorities' decision making for the selection of resilience strategies
Welcome to the PEARL institutional ABM simulating authorities' decision making for the selection of resilient strategies.
The PEARL ABM SAS aim is to simulate how authorities prepare against flood risk. The model consists of agents representing: the central authorities, the local authorities (region, municipality), critical infrastructure owners (water utility company) and stakeholders (construction companies, general public).
The agents representing the authorities are presented with two different sets of resilience strategies: flood preparedness actions and flood protection measures. The first set consists of actions that a city needs to undertake every year to prepare for flood events, while the second set of measures includes strategies that strengthen its resilience. This model assumes that authorities are well informed regarding the characteristics of the resilience strategies. It aims to simulate the behaviour of authorities in changing socio-economic and environmental conditions and how this behaviour may affect the city’s resilience.
These agents have preferences and interests regarding the city’s flood protection. They follow specific rules that allow them to get information regarding the available funding and the characteristics of the resilient strategies, interact with the stakeholders to prepare the city for flooding events and implement actions, decide to implement new measures of flood protection, inspect existing flood protection measures and maintain them.
To setup the PEARL ABM SAS model you need to:
- Go to input parameters and fill in the model’s social, economic, technical and environmental conditions under which you wish to run the simulation.
- Run the PEARL ABM SAS model simulating the authorities' decision making for the selection of resilient strategies.
- Explore the results of the simulations with the higher and lower performance. Plots are produced presenting the annual implementation of preparedness actions and flood resilience measures, spending of funds, cooperation of authorities and performance in respect to flood events.
- Repeat to explore different conditions.
You are free to change any of the values to explore the behaviour of the authorities.
