Abstract for: Towards a Dynamic Formulation of Social Burden: Modeling Decision-Making Processes During Infrastructure Disruptions

Power outages and infrastructure disruptions pose particular challenges to households trying to meet ongoing basic needs. We model decisionmaking processes for household acquisition and consumption of resources in order to better understand the community behaviors and cumulative burdens during disruption events. We have developed a model reflecting the household consumption of resources to meet needs and the ways in which household behaviors might change in the face of infrastructure disruptions. This model will be extended to reflect the interactions of the decisionmaking processes of multiple households within a community determining where they would go to access these resources. It is interesting to consider how households adapt their consumption of resources in the face of resource constraints and uncertainty. The extension of this model to explore the interactions between individual household behaviors and resource availability poses an interesting opportunity to explore the burdens faced by households during disruption events.