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SUBMITTER: Entwisle B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5004973 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Entwisle Barbara B Williams Nathalie E NE Verdery Ashton M AM Rindfuss Ronald R RR Walsh Stephen J SJ Malanson George P GP Mucha Peter J PJ Frizzelle Brian G BG McDaniel Philip M PM Yao Xiaozheng X Heumann Benjamin W BW Prasartkul Pramote P Sawangdee Yothin Y Jampaklay Aree A
Population and environment 20160123 1
This is a study of migration responses to climate shocks. We construct an agent-based model that incorporates dynamic linkages between demographic behaviors, such as migration, marriage, and births, and agriculture and land use, which depend on rainfall patterns. The rules and parameterization of our model are empirically derived from qualitative and quantitative analyses of a well-studied demographic field site, Nang Rong district, Northeast Thailand. With this model, we simulate patterns of mi ...[more]