Knowledge Base

The knowledge base contains briefing notes on conceptual underpinnings to the CAVES project, land use and the case studies, and methodological approaches.

Conceptual

This category comprises briefings about complexity, social networks, resilience, and adaptive capacity.

• Social networks in CAVES -- A methodological overview
• Networks from an interdisciplinary 'Social Science' perspective
• Social Network Analysis
• Complex Networks Theory and Agent-Based Social Networks

Land use change

This category comprises case study descriptions and briefings about trends and structural change, and external shocks.

• NGOs in Vhembe, Limpopo, South Africa
• Grampian Region Pilot Study Report

Methodology

This category comprises briefings about agent-based modelling, mental mapping, knowledge elicitation, stakeholder validation, and statistical mechanics and signatures.

• Knowledge/Data eliciation (Grampian case study)
• Knowledge/Data eliciation (Odra case study)
• Measures of clustering
• CAVES generalisation framework

Social Policy

This category comprises briefings about how agent-based models and case study narratives are integrated in the process of social policy analysis and formation.