Darwin identified at least two triggers of evolution: either shocks that hit a system from the outside or ‘mutant’ shocks that sprout up from within a system. The Gaja cyclone that hit the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu state in India on Friday 16 November 2018 is a typical example of the former, while the human cylone, wearing bright yellow vests, or the gilets jaunes, which stormed out on the streets of Paris and elsewhere in France on Saturday November 17 can be considered the latter. Though wor...
Microsimulations are extremely important for testing various policies: from environment to health, tax-benefits to transport. Our recent conference covered the state-of-the-art in behavioural, spatial and static microsimulation thanks to the contributions of experts from Europe and beyond. At the conference, we discussed various new theories and techniques and got to grips with the first edition of the Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling. UNU-MERIT’s School of Governance hosted this year...