ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by discussing the basic concepts around how they will represent human decision making, including the concept of action pathways and the use of capital, agent interactions, and their effects on rational and adaptive decision making. It argues that the use of multiple complex systems techniques in conjunction with modeling environmental conflict. The chapter explores viability theory, the mathematical basis of Values and Investments for Agent-Based interaction and Learning in Environmental modeling approach and how can reconceptualize environmental conflict states using this theory. It discusses the context of the decisions of a single agent, and expands it to explore multiple agents making decisions in conjunction with each other. The extent to which environmental disputes are able to damage a society or lead to constructive social change critically depends on the way they are handled by the agents involved. In economic theory, the most common dimensions of capital are natural capital, physical capital, and financial capital.
