Complexity and ecosystem management : the theory and practice of multi-agent systems / edited by Marco A. Janssen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Society for Ecological Economics. Meeting (2000 : Canberra, A.C.T.)

Contributor:

Janssen, Marco, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecosystem management--Congresses.

Ecosystem management.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Methods and Concepts

2. The transition from local to global dynamics: a proposed framework for agent-based thinking in social-ecological systems / J. Marty Anderies 13

3. Changing the rules of the game: lessons from immunology and linguistics for self-organization of institutions / Marco A. Janssen 35

4. Futures, predictions and other foolishness / Roger Bradbury 48

5. Validation and verification of multi-agent systems / Steven M. Manson 63

6. Using artificial agents to understand laboratory experiments of common-pool resources with real agents / Wander Jager, Marco A. Janssen 75

7. Implications of spatial heterogeneity of grazing pressure on the resilience of rangelands / Marco A. Janssen, J. Marty Anderies, Mark Stafford Smith, Brian H. Walker 103

Part II Applications

8. Adjustment costs of agri-environmental policy switchings: an agent-based analysis of the German region Hohenlohe / Alfons Balmann, Kathrin Happe, Konrad Kellermann, Anne Kleingarn 127

9. Agent-based simulation of organic farming conversion in Allier departement / Guillaume Deffuant, Sylvie Huet, Jean Paul Bousset, Jerome Henriot, Georges Amon, Gerard Weisbuch 158

10. Scientific measurements and villagers' knowledge: an integrative multi-agent model from the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe / Tim Lynam 188

11. Simulating land-cover change in South-Central Indiana: an agent-based model of deforestation and afforestation / Matthew Hoffmann, Hugh Kelley, Tom Evans 218

12. Multi-agent systems and role games: collective learning processes for ecosystem management / Francois Bousquet, Olivier Barreteau, Patrick d'Aquino, Michel Etienne, Stanislas Boissau, Sigried Aubert, Christophe Le Page, Didier Babin, Jean-Christophe Castella 248

13. Institutional change for sustainable land use: a participatory approach from Australia / Nick Abel, Art Langston, John Ive, Bill Tatnell, Mark Howden, Jacqui Stol 286.

Notes:

Edited papers from the biannual Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economists held in Canberra, Australia, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-342) and index.

ISBN:

1843760614

OCLC:

50604929