Adapting Science to Adaptive Managers: Spidergrams, Belief Models, and Multi-agent Systems Modeling

dc.contributor.authorLynam, Timothyen_US
dc.contributor.authorBousquet, Françoisen_US
dc.contributor.authorLe Page, Christopheen_US
dc.contributor.authord'Aquino, Patricken_US
dc.contributor.authorBarreteau, Olivieren_US
dc.contributor.authorChinembiri, Franken_US
dc.contributor.authorMombeshora, Brighten_US
dc.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-31T15:01:09Z
dc.date.available2009-07-31T15:01:09Z
dc.date.issued2002en_US
dc.date.submitted2009-02-10en_US
dc.date.submitted2009-02-10en_US
dc.description.abstract"Two case studies are presented in which models were used as focal tools in problems associated with common-pool resource management in developing countries. In the first case study, based in Zimbabwe, Bayesian or Belief Networks were used in a project designed to enhance the adaptive management capacity of a community in a semiarid rangeland system. In the second case study, based in Senegal, multi-agent systems models were used in the context of role plays to communicate research findings to a community, as well as to explore policies for improved management of rangelands and arable lands over which herders and farmers were in conflict. "The paper provides examples of the use of computer-based modeling with stakeholders who had limited experience with computer systems and numerical analyses. The paper closes with a brief discussion of the major lessons learned from the two independent case studies. Perhaps the most important lesson was the development of a common understanding of a problem through the development of the models with key stakeholders. A second key lesson was the need for research to be adaptive if it were to benefit adaptive managers. Both case study situations required significant changes in project orientation as stakeholder needs were defined. Both case studies recognized the key role that research, and particularly the development of models, played in bring different actors together to formulate improved management strategies or policies. Participatory engagement with stakeholders is a time-consuming and relatively costly process in which, in the case studies, most of the costs were born by the research projects themselves. We raise the concern that these activities may not be widely replicable if such costs are not reduced or born by the stakeholders themselves."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalEcology and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthJanuaryen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber2en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume5en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/3440
dc.subjectadaptive systemsen_US
dc.subjectcommon pool resourcesen_US
dc.subjectresource managementen_US
dc.subjectarid regionsen_US
dc.subject.sectorSocial Organizationen_US
dc.titleAdapting Science to Adaptive Managers: Spidergrams, Belief Models, and Multi-agent Systems Modelingen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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