Simple movement rules result in ideal free distribution of mobile pastoralists

Autor:	Paul Scholte, Paul Maddock, Mark Moritz, Jeff Cronley, Hongyang Pi, Ian M. Hamilton, Andrew J. Yoak
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Common-pool resource Agent-based model Ideal free distribution business.industry Computer science Ecological Modeling Environmental resource management Pastoralism Tragedy of the commons business Commons Complex adaptive system Simple (philosophy)
Zdroj:	Ecological Modelling. 305:54-63
ISSN:	0304-3800
DOI:	10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.03.010
Popis:	While open access to common-pool resources has been equated with a tragedy of the commons, we have found that mobile pastoralists in the Logone Floodplain in Cameroon are sustain ably managing open access to common-pool grazing resources. We have described this pastoral system as a self-organizing complex adaptive system (CAS) in which mobile pastoralists distribute themselves over common-pool grazing resources without central or collective decision-making. We have found evidence of management of open access in the form of an ideal free distribution (IFD). Here we discuss the results of an agent-based model (ABM) simulation and show how pastoralists are able to achieve an IFD with relatively simple movement rules. We describe this system as an Emergent Commons (EC).
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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