@inproceedings{246d66d7e1a7415eafa1f7b52b68f326,
title = "Participatory simulations of urban flooding for learning and decision support",
abstract = "Flood-control measures, such as levees and floodwalls, can backfire and increase risks of disastrous floods by giving the public a false sense of security and thus encouraging people to build valuable property in high-risk locations. More generally, nonlinear interactions between human land-use and natural processes can produce unexpected emergent phenomena in coupled human-natural systems (CHNS). We describe a participatory agent-based simulation of coupled urban development and flood risks and discuss the potential of this simulation to help educate a wide range of the public-from middle-and high-school students to public officials-about emergence in CHNS and present results from two pilot studies.",
author = "Gilligan, {Jonathan M.} and Corey Brady and Camp, {Janey V.} and Nay, {John J.} and Pratim Sengupta",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1109/WSC.2015.7408456",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3174--3175",
booktitle = "2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015",
address = "United States",
note = "Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015 ; Conference date: 06-12-2015 Through 09-12-2015",
}