Social Systems
This group is investigating how, through social interventions, desired changes can be effected in social systems and undesired changes can be prevented. To do this, the group is developing and implementing agent-based simulation models. Using data gathered in the field, simulation experiments are conducted so that optimal intervention measures can be planned in collaboration with the people affected, experts, and decision-makers. The implementation of intervention measures is monitored (social monitoring), and the resulting data informs further simulation trials, so that change processes can be evaluated continuously and interventions fine-tuned where necessary. In this way, the research group is working towards evidence-based, participative, and adaptive solutions to problems that are decisively impacted by the individual behavior of large groups of people. Group website
Research fields
- Changing the behavior of persons and households
- Diffusion of innovations;
- Management of
shared use of resources
- Realization of collective action
- Quality of stakeholder analysis and stakeholder participation
The group cooperates with other departments of Eawag (Sandec, W+T, Ing., SWW), with ETH Zurich and the universities of Zurich and Berne. Group members give lectures at the University of Zurich and supervise students of the department Social Psychology.
Contacts: Hans-Joachim Mosler,
Andrea Tamas, Sören Vogel, Silvie Krämer, Eike von Lindern, Thomas Buchsbaum, Jennifer Inauen, Alexandra Gonzalez
Projects
- Reduktion des anfallenden Abfalls von Santiago de Cuba über eine Verhaltensänderung bei den Haushalten (Hans-Joachim Mosler)