Self-sustainability is a property of a system; a system is considered to be self-sustainable if it can sustain itself without external support in an observed period of time. If this property is mapped to a human settlement in context of resources (water, energy, food, etc.), it would describe a...

Electric Vehicles (EVs) have seen significant growth in sales recently and it is not clear how power systems will support the charging of a great number of vehicles. This paper proposes a methodology which allows the aggregated EV charging demand to be determined. The methodology applied to...

Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zum relativ neuen Konzept der Pfadbrechung. Auf Basis von Simulationsrechnungen mit dem agentenbasierten Agrarstrukturmodell AgriPoliS und qualitativen Daten von Stakeholdern aus dem Bereich der Milchproduktion werden Aussagen zu möglichen...

Climate policy has been mainly studied with economic models that assume representative, rational agents. However, it aims at changing behavior associated with carbon-intensive goods that are often subject to bounded rationality and social preferences, such as status and imitation. Here we use a...