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To understand the recent shift of paradigms prevailing in both environmental modelling and renewable resources management that led to the emerging rise in the application of ABMS. Also, to learn about a practical way to characterize applications of ABMS to environmental management and to see this framework applied to review a selection of recent applications of ABMS from various fields related to environmental management including the dynamics of land use changes, water, forest and wildlife management, agriculture, livestock productions and epidemiology.

The purpose of this chapter is to summarize how agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) is being used in the area of environmental management. With the science of complex systems now being widely recognized as an appropriate one to tackle the main …