Print Email Facebook Twitter Modelling human agency in ancient irrigation Title Modelling human agency in ancient irrigation Author Ertsen, M.W. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2011-10-20 Abstract Human activity is key in understanding ancient irrigation systems. Results of short term actions build up over time, affecting civilizations on larger temporal and spatial scales. Irrigation systems, with their many entities, social and physical, their many interactions within a changing environment and emergent properties, are typical examples of systems for which agent-based modelling could yield fruitful analysis. Because of the highly detailed and complex relations between human actions and the social and material context in irrigation, however, it is difficult to develop a full-scale agent-based model for irrigation. This paper will discuss first attempts to build understanding on human agency through agent-based modelling. Subject irrigationhuman agencyagent-based modelling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e18d221-f99d-47af-a9f0-a7475c07fe3e Publisher APDCA ISBN 2-904110-52-6 Source Variabilités Environnementales, Mutations Sociales: Nature, intensités, échelles et temporalités des changements: Proceedings of the XXXIIe rencontres internationales d'archéologie et d'histoire d'Antibes, 20-22 October 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 APDCA Files PDF 284492.pdf 782.48 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0e18d221-f99d-47af-a9f0-a7475c07fe3e/datastream/OBJ/view