Coordination in Irrigation Systems: An Analysis of the Lansing-Kremer Model of Bali

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2469
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Janssen, Marco A.
Journal:	Agricultural Systems
Volume:	93
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Date:	2007
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2469
Sector:	Social Organization Wildlife
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	irrigation networks agent-based computational economics decision making
Abstract:	"Farmers within irrigation systems, such as those in Bali, solve complex coordination problems to allocate water and control pests. Lansing and Kremer's [Lansing, J.S., Kremer, J.N., 1993. Emergent properties of Balinese water temples. American Anthropologist 95(1), 97-114] study of Balinese water temples showed that this coordination problem can be solved by assuming simple local rules for how individual communities make their decisions. Using the original Lansing-Kremer model, the robustness of their insights was analyzed and the ability of agents to self-organize was found to be sensitive to pest dynamics and assumptions of agent decision making."

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