A multi-agent model for describing transhumance in North Cameroon: Comparison of different rationality to develop a routine

Rouchier, Juliette; Bousquet, François; Requier-Desjardins, Mélanie; Antona, Martine

doi:10.1016/s0165-1889(00)00035-x

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“…But models in various fields of application other than adaptive capacity are beginning to identify features of current systems that make the system more or less resilient, more or less likely to give rise to unpleasant futures (e.g. Axtell et al 2002, Moss et al 2001, Rouchier et al 2001. Given the inherent unpredictability of complex adaptive systems, it is unlikely that any model -ABM or EBM -will be able to foresee long range future events with a great degree of reliability (Bradbury 2002).…”

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“…In other models the level of detail has been much higher, requiring significantly more specification, in some cases highly spatially defined, of agents and their environment. Rouchier et al (2001), for example, modeled farmers and herders in Cameroon, attempting to recreate the migration patterns of the herder class. It was unclear, however, what the informal rules of interaction between farmers and herders actually were.…”

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Agent Based Modeling and Adaptation to Climate Change

Patt¹,

Siebenhüner²

2005

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Agent Based Modeling and Adaptation to Climate Change* By Anthony Patt** and Bernd Siebenhüner*** Summary: Agent based modeling is a technique for simulating complex systems that allows the modeler to investigate both the potential for and the sources of emergent properties: behaviors of the system quite different from the behavior of any of the elements within it. Problems well suited to investigation by agent based models are those with many people solving a similar problem where their individual responses to the problem influence the choices that others make, where new technologies may emerge to assist them solve the problem, and where social dilemmas exist. These features are inherent in many problems of adaptation to climate change. Agent based modeling can not predict the future of a complex adaptive system -no method of modeling can -but it can offer insights into the relationship between features of current systems and the range of possible future adaptations that will be likely in response to climate change. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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Section: Data On Agentsmentioning

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Agent Based Modeling and Adaptation to Climate Change

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Siebenhüner²

2005

VJH

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“…Most researchers have used the "governing the commons" model that assumes that there is regulation of access to common-pool grazing resources. Requier-Desjardins (2001) and Rouchier et al (2001), for example, describe the management of common-pool grazing resources as a commons. They argue that even though there is no formal regulation of access, access is regulated through informal negotiations between mobile http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss1/art13/ pastoralists on the one hand and farmers and traditional authorities on the other.…”

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“…They argue that even though there is no formal regulation of access, access is regulated through informal negotiations between mobile http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss1/art13/ pastoralists on the one hand and farmers and traditional authorities on the other. Rouchier et al (2001) explicitly label the management of common-pool grazing resources as commons while simultaneously describing a situation of open access.…”

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“…In the context of North Cameroon, the head of the village is responsible for the presence of the herdsmen, who are expected to announce their arrival to the village leader. If tradition has it that the village leaders never refuse access, it is equally habitual, if not compulsory, for the herdsmen to offer money ... (Rouchier et al 2001:529, emphasis added).…”

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Misreading a pastoral property regime in the Logone floodplain, Cameroon

Moritz¹

2017

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ABSTRACT. This is a response to an article by Haller et al. (2013) in Ecology and Society titled "How fit turns into misfit and back: institutional transformations of pastoral commons in African floodplains." In this response, I argue that Haller et al.'s description of the pastoralists' management of common-pool grazing resources in the Logone floodplain of Cameroon is incorrect in a number of ways. I summarize the findings from our longitudinal and interdisciplinary study to show that current pastoralists' management of common-pool grazing resources in the floodplain is efficient, equitable, and sustainable. Specifically, ecological research contradicts Haller et al.'s proposition that resource degradation is due to overgrazing in a situation of open access. This is an important point to clarify because pastoralists are often wrongly accused of overgrazing the range.

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Agriculture, climate and future land use patterns: potential for a simulation-based exploration

Verburg

Lesschen

2006

Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015

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A multi-agent model for describing transhumance in North Cameroon: Comparison of different rationality to develop a routine

Cited by 77 publications

References 5 publications

Agent Based Modeling and Adaptation to Climate Change

Agent Based Modeling and Adaptation to Climate Change

Misreading a pastoral property regime in the Logone floodplain, Cameroon

Agriculture, climate and future land use patterns: potential for a simulation-based exploration

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