Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Community Development (Taylor & Francis)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2019.1574849
Abstract
Increasingly, civic leaders and community developers are harnessing the power of computational technologies to foster more resilient and equitable communities. This article examines how one such technology—agent-based modeling (ABM)—is well-suited not only for its use in planning and policymaking but also for inspiring the bonding, bridging, and linking social capital crucial for community resilience. ABM enables researchers and stakeholders to explore scenarios in which individual agents make choices and also interact, learn from one another, and collaborate. This article describes a case study with three groups of middle-school youth from resource-vulnerable neighborhoods in Des Moines, Iowa. Results suggest that neighborhood-scale ABMs support the adaptive systems thinking, social capital building, and collaborative action useful in contributing to long-term goals for community resilience.
Disciplines
Engineering | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
Publication Date
2-12-2019
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Shenk, Linda; Krejci, Caroline; and Passe, Ulrike, "Agents of Change—Together: Using Agent-based Models to Inspire Social Capital Building for Resilient Communities" (2019). Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Faculty Publications. 5.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/industrialmanusys_facpubs/5
Comments
This is an accepted version of an article published by Routledge.