dc.contributor.author |
Carpenter, Stephen |
en_US |
dc.contributor.author |
Brock, William A. |
en_US |
dc.contributor.author |
Hanson, Paul |
en_US |
dc.date.accessioned |
2009-07-31T14:52:32Z |
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dc.date.available |
2009-07-31T14:52:32Z |
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dc.date.issued |
1999 |
en_US |
dc.date.submitted |
2007-10-22 |
en_US |
dc.date.submitted |
2007-10-22 |
en_US |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2674 |
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dc.description.abstract |
"Simulation models were developed to explore and illustrate dynamics of socioecological systems. The ecosystem is a lake subject to phosphorus pollution. Phosphorus flows from agriculture to upland soils, to surface waters, where it cycles between water and sediments. The ecosystem is multi-stable, and moves among domains of attraction depending on the history of pollutant inputs. The alternative states yield different economic benefits. Agents form expectations about ecosystem dynamics, markets, and/or the actions of managers, and choose levels of pollutant inputs accordingly. Agents have heterogeneous beliefs and/or access to information. Their aggregate behavior determines the total rate of pollutant input. As the ecosystem changes, agents update their beliefs and expectations about the world they co-create, and modify their actions accordingly. For a wide range of scenarios, we observe irregular oscillations among ecosystem states and patterns of agent behavior. These oscillations resemble some features of the adaptive cycle of panarchy theory." |
en_US |
dc.subject |
adaptive systems |
en_US |
dc.subject |
bounded rationality |
en_US |
dc.subject |
ecological economics |
en_US |
dc.subject |
modeling--theory |
en_US |
dc.subject |
simulations |
en_US |
dc.subject |
lakes |
en_US |
dc.subject |
resource management |
en_US |
dc.title |
Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management |
en_US |
dc.type |
Journal Article |
en_US |
dc.type.published |
published |
en_US |
dc.subject.sector |
Theory |
en_US |
dc.identifier.citationjournal |
Conservation Ecology |
en_US |
dc.identifier.citationvolume |
3 |
en_US |
dc.identifier.citationnumber |
2 |
en_US |
dc.identifier.citationmonth |
June |
en_US |
dc.submitter.email |
efcastle@indiana.edu |
en_US |