Modelling Contingent Technology Adoption in Farming Irrigation Communities
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2020-06-18T08:52:40Z
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2020-06-18T08:52:40Z
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2019-10-31
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1460-7425
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Of all the uses of water, agriculture is the one that requires the greatest proportion of resources worldwide. Consequently, it is a salient subject for environmental policy-making, and adoption of modern irrigation systems is a key means to improve water use efficiency. In this paper we present an agent-based model of the adoption process —known as "modernisation"— of a community constituted by farmer agents. The phenomenon is approached as a contingent innovation adoption: a first stage to reach a collective agreement followed by an individual adoption decision. The model is based on historical data from two Spanish irrigation communities during the period 1975-2010. Results suggest that individual profits and farm extension (as proxy of social influence) are suitable assumptions when modelling the modernisation of communities in regions where agriculture is strongly market-oriented and water is scarce. These encouraging results point towards the interest of more sophisticated socio-cognitive modelling within a more realistic socio-hydrologic context
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application/pdf
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eng
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SimSoc Consortium
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Reproducció digital del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4100
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Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2019, vol. 22, núm. 4
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Articles publicats (D-EQATA)
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Attribution 4.0 International
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Modelling Contingent Technology Adoption in Farming Irrigation Communities
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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030523
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peer-reviewed