Managing ecological disturbances: Learning and the structure of social-ecological networks
Authored by J A Baggio, V Hillis
Date Published: 2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.08.002
Sponsors:
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
United States National Science Foundation (NSF)
Platforms:
NetLogo
Model Documentation:
ODD
Flow charts
Mathematical description
Model Code URLs:
https://www.comses.net/codebases/5502/releases/1.1.0/
Abstract
Ecological disturbances (i.e. pests, fires, floods, biological
invasions, etc.) are a critical challenge for natural resource managers.
Land managers play a key role in altering the rate and extent of
disturbance propagation. Ecological disturbances propagate across the
landscape, while management strategies propagate across social networks
of managers. Here we use an agent-based model to examine the joint
diffusion of ecological disturbances and management strategies across a
social-ecological network, accounting for the fundamental role of
social-ecological feedbacks. We examine the management of a generic
ecological disturbance as a function of different learning strategies
and the social-ecological network. Our approach provides a general
scaffold that can be modified to examine a variety of processes in which
both social and ecological flows propagate across a social-ecological
network. Our findings highlight the importance of full and accurate
information to assess successful strategy, limited clustering and
alignment between the social and the ecological system.
Tags
connectivity
ABM
Landscape
Learning
environmental management
Policy
systems
social-ecological networks
Strategies
Management-practices
Multilayer networks
Ecological disturbances
Scale mismatches
Governance
network
Advice networks