Coordination in irrigation systems: An analysis of the Lansing-Kremer model of Bali

Authored by Marco A Janssen

Date Published: 2007-03

DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2006.05.004

Sponsors: Center for the Study of Institutions Population and Environmental Change at Indiana University United States National Science Foundation (NSF)

Platforms: Java

Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

Model Code URLs: Model code not found

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(l), 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. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Agent-based model coordination networks synchronization irrigation