Acclimate - a model for economic loss propagation

C++11-Implementation of the Acclimate model by Sven Willner and Christian Otto.

Description / Citation

The newest ("price") version of the Acclimate model is described in (please cite when using this code):

• Otto C, Willner SN, Wenz L, Frieler K, Levermann A. (2017). Modeling loss-propagation in the global supply network: The dynamic agent-based model acclimate. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2017.08.001.

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Dependencies

You need to have CMake installed for compiling the source code (under Ubuntu-like Linux distributions: sudo apt-get install cmake).

External dependecies:

• NetCDF C
  • used for reading and writing of NetCDF files
  • Source code: Unidata/netcdf-c
• NLOpt
  • used for numerical optimization
  • will be built in by default
  • Source code: stevengj/nlopt)
• YAML-cpp
  • used for reading settings files
  • will be built in by default
  • Source code: jbeder/yaml-cpp

Further built-in dependecies (included in this repository as subtrees):

• swillner/cmake-modules
  • used for compilation
• swillner/cpp-library
  • some minor helper functions, e.g. for progress bar
• swillner/netcdfpp
  • used for reading and writing NetCDF files
• swillner/settingsnode
  • used for reading settings files

How to build

Have a look at the CMake documentation of how to invoke CMake on your system. On a system using the make command, simply run:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Further configuration can be done before running make e.g. using ccmake ...

Usage

Multi-regional input-output is used by Acclimate to build-up the baseline economic network. Such data is not included in this repository. In the publications mentioned above the EORA dataset was used.

Acclimate expects a configuration YAML file whose path is given on the commandline when running Acclimate. An example is provided in example/settings.yml.

For information about the built binary run:

./acclimate -i

Old model versions

This implementation also includes the older "basic" and "demand" versions. These are described in:

• Bierkandt R, Wenz L, Willner SN, Levermann A. (2014). Acclimate - a model for economic damage propagation. Part I: basic formulation of damage transfer within a global supply network and damage conserving dynamics. Environment Systems and Decisions, 34, 507-524. doi:10.1007/s10669-014-9523-4.
• Wenz L, Willner SN, Bierkandt R, Levermann A. (2014). Acclimate - a model for economic damage propagation. Part II: a dynamic formulation of the backward effects of disaster-induced production failures in the global supply network. Environment Systems and Decisions, 34, 525-539. doi:10.1007/s10669-014-9521-6.