ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we explain an agent-based model (ABM) specifically designed to analyze the emergence of the environmental justice (EJ) problem as one component of sustainability analysis (i.e., the EJ ABM). This chapter shows how we conceptualize specific micro-rules (rules at the level of the individual agent) to examine a systemic pattern of emergent environmental injustice in an artificial community. As mentioned before, these are “systemic patterns” because they occur due to interactions within the entire system: Environmental injustice is a macro-level phenomenon (at the level of the city) that emerges from micro-level interactions within the system.
