Janssen, Marco A. “Impact of diverse behavioral theories on environmental management: explorations with Daisyworld.” In 2016 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) , pp. 1690-1701. IEEE, 2016.
Our understanding of human behavior is limited and consequently lacks a standard formal model of human behavior that could represent relevant behavior in social-ecological systems. In this paper we explore the consequences of alternative behavioral models using a simple dynamic system of agents of harvesting daisies in the well-known Daisyworld model. We explore the consequences of different behavioral assumptions and derive optimal tax policies that lead to sustainable outcomes for each of the theories.