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Influencing opinion dynamics to promote sustainable food choices
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Decision and Control Systems (Automatic Control). Digital Futures, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6367-6302
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK; Department of Biosciences and Nutrition & Sweden Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden.
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London UK.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Decision and Control Systems (Automatic Control). Digital Futures, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9940-5929
2024 (English)In: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Elsevier BV , 2024, Vol. 58, p. 169-174Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Substantial shifts in contemporary diets are needed to address the growing burden of chronic diseases and the accelerating climate crisis. To facilitate these changes, policy-makers must develop effective strategies to advertise and encourage healthy dietary choices among the population. In this work, to capture changes in dietary behavior we propose an opinion dynamics model where prejudiced agents can interact with their neighbors in a social network. Additionally, an external entity, such as a policy-maker or a government, can influence the agents through sequential campaigns towards a desired collective opinion. We investigate the impact of this exogenous influence under budget constraints, limiting, for example, the number of agents that can be influenced per campaign, and show how to optimize influence allocation. We conclude with an application of the proposed approach within the context of sustainability goals on food consumption set by the UK Climate Change Committee. Using baseline food intake patterns derived from survey data on the UK population, we evaluate the impact of campaigns promoting dietary shifts and mitigating environmental impacts.

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Elsevier BV , 2024. Vol. 58, p. 169-174
Keywords [en]
influence allocation, opinion dynamics, prejudiced agents, sustainable behavior
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Environmental Sciences Food Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-360562DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.01.175ISI: 001403404200029Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85218037771OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-360562DiVA, id: diva2:1940628
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5th IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical Human Systems, CPHS 2024, Antalya, Türkiye, Dec 12 2024 - Dec 13 2024
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Available from: 2025-02-26 Created: 2025-02-26 Last updated: 2025-04-01Bibliographically approved

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