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Ontological and Computational Aspects of Economic-Environmental Modelling

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Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI 2015)

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The paper examines economic-environmental modelling from a computational perspective. It considers the relationship between foundational and reference ontologies, warning that the philosophical implications of making an ontological commitment are often far from benign. In particular, it considers the proximity between foundational ontologies motivated by Husserlian phenomenology and neo-Austrian economic thought. Doubts are raised about capital theory in the modelling of economic-environmental interactions. A range of philosophical approaches towards environmental sustainability are also discussed in terms of their congruence with different schools of economic thought. Computational and mathematical aspects of modelling are then considered.

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    James Juniper

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    Stephan K. Chalup

  2. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Alan D. Blair

  3. Faculty of Business, Bond University, 4226, Robina, QLD, Australia

    Marcus Randall

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Juniper, J. (2015). Ontological and Computational Aspects of Economic-Environmental Modelling. In: Chalup, S.K., Blair, A.D., Randall, M. (eds) Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence. ACALCI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8955. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14803-8_3

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