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publications-3857
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article
Year:
2017
Authors:
Koutiva, Ifigeneia and Koutiva, Ifigeneia and Makropoulos, Christos and Makropoulos, Christos
Title:
Exploring the effects of domestic water management measures to water conservation attitudes using agent based modelling
Venue/Journal:
Water Science & Technology: Water Supply
DOI:
10.2166/ws.2016.161
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Water System:
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The urban water system9s sustainable evolution requires managing both water supply and water demand within a complete urban water cycle framework. Such an approach, however, requires tools to analyse and simulate the complete system including both physical and cultural environments. One of the main challenges, in this regard, is the design and development of tools able to simulate the society9s water demand behaviour and the way policy measures affect it. The effects of these policy measures are a function of personal attitudes that subsequently lead to the formation of people9s behaviours. This work focuses on the exploration of social impact theory on water conservation attitudes of urban households. A model is designed and implemented using agent based modelling. The developed model9s ability to represent social structure and mechanisms of social influences is tested against historical data from the 1988–1994 drought of Athens, Greece as a case study.
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