Interactive Simulations with a Stylized Scale Model to Codesign with Villagers an Agent-Based Model of Bushmeat Hunting in the Periphery of Korup National Park (Cameroon)

Page, Christophe Le; Bobo, Kadiri Serge; Kamgaing, Towa Olivier William; Ngahane, Bobo Fernanda; Waltert, Matthias

doi:10.18564/jasss.2550

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“…Further references are available in Le Page et al. (). The computer code and the full documentation (including ODD) are available from the CoMSES Net Computational Model Library.…”

Section: Application Of the 4p Frameworkmentioning

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Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products: four Ps to advance participatory socio‐environmental modeling

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Voinov

Paolisso

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Ecological Applications

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Abstract. Including stakeholders in environmental model building and analysis is an increasingly popular approach to understanding ecological change. This is because stakeholders often hold valuable knowledge about socio-environmental dynamics and collaborative forms of modeling produce important boundary objects used to collectively reason about environmental problems. Although the number of participatory modeling (PM) case studies and the number of researchers adopting these approaches has grown in recent years, the lack of standardized reporting and limited reproducibility have prevented PM's establishment and advancement as a cohesive field of study. We suggest a four-dimensional framework (4P) that includes reporting on dimensions of (1) the Purpose for selecting a PM approach (the why); (2) the Process by which the public was involved in model building or evaluation (the how); (3) the Partnerships formed (the who); and (4) the Products that resulted from these efforts (the what). We highlight four case studies that use common PM software-based approaches (fuzzy cognitive mapping, agent-based modeling, system dynamics, and participatory geospatial modeling) to understand human-environment interactions and the consequences of ecological changes, including bushmeat hunting in Tanzania and Cameroon, agricultural production and deforestation in Zambia, and groundwater management in India. We demonstrate how standardizing communication about PM case studies can lead to innovation and new insights about model-based reasoning in support of ecological policy development. We suggest that our 4P framework and reporting approach provides a way for new hypotheses to be identified and tested in the growing field of PM.

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“…Further references are available in Le Page et al. (). The computer code and the full documentation (including ODD) are available from the CoMSES Net Computational Model Library.…”

Section: Application Of the 4p Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products: four Ps to advance participatory socio‐environmental modeling

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Voinov

Paolisso

et al. 2017

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“…ComMod processes have been conducted in various contexts in the past decades, such as land-use management in Senegal (d 'Aquino et al 2003, d'Aquino andBah 2014), conflicts over water management in Thailand (Barnaud et al 2006(Barnaud et al , 2008 and Bhutan , collective awareness of sustainable use of reed beds (Mathevet et al 2007), and hunting practices in African tropical forests (Le Page et al 2015). The objects used for and produced through participation are "boundary objects" linking different actors belonging to different social worlds but involved in a common process (Vinck 2009, Queste et al 2011.…”

Section: Companion Modeling: Collective Sense Making and Boundary Objmentioning

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My cattle and your park: codesigning a role-playing game with rural communities to promote multistakeholder dialogue at the edge of protected areas

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ABSTRACT. Protected areas are often burdened with conflicts between environmental managers and neighboring rural communities. Unsuccessful top-down approaches for conservation may be replaced by alternative forms of systemic management involving local actors in the design and implementation of conservation management. Although theoretically sound and appealing, the involvement of local residents in the management of protected areas is often impaired in practice by scale mismatches, conflicting values and interests, power imbalance, and a lack of trust among actors. In this paper, we describe a process initiated in Zimbabwe to create a fair and balanced locally designed arena where local communities and protected area managers may collaborate to produce effective management plans. Adopting the Companion Modeling approach, we conducted a participatory modeling experiment to codesign a role-playing game that simulates the interactions between farming activities, livestock herding practices, and wildlife in a virtual landscape reproducing local social-ecological dynamics. After 18 months of intensive ethnographical fieldwork to gain knowledge and legitimacy, we spent one year codesigning the first version of the game with a group of volunteer villagers. The game, called Kulayijana (teaching each other), was tested and validated by other members of the rural communities and subsequently presented to protected area managers. We show how this approach allowed the negotiation of uncertainties and their inclusion in a model that constitutes a shared representation of farmers' interactions with the protected area. We emphasize the fact that working with marginalized actors first increased participation, appropriation, and confidence of rural communities to engage in a multistakeholder debate, thus reducing power imbalance among actors. We conclude by discussing the next phase of our work: the necessary involvement of conservation actors in the Kulayijana team, and the implementation of Kulayijana with higher hierarchical levels.

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“…Dumrongrojwatthana et al (2011) applied a variant on this approach to study resource tradeoffs among herders and foresters in Thailand, in which initial participatory exercises led to co-production of a model for changes in vegetation state; this early joint product led to a 'computerassisted RPG' or cRPG, which eliminated calculations of vegetation growth that would have been cumbersome for a paper-based game, and allowed stakeholders to engage directly and early on with a part of the computer simulation. Moving further along this spectrum, Le Page et al (2015) brought bushmeat hunters from Cameroon directly into the development of an ABM, beginning with a simple small-scale abstraction of an inhabited forest system, and building participant feedback into progressively larger-scale efforts at capturing the overall system through a series of three workshops. While framed field and lab experiments capture participant response to a carefully controlled, stylized decision, the ComMod approach allows a detailed and rich decision structure to emerge from the participants; however, this richness comes at the expense of cost, time, and representativeness, with the resulting decision structure being highly tailored to the particular system and group of participants in the study.…”

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Informing decisions in agent-based models — A mobile update

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2017

Environmental Modelling & Software

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Interactive Simulations with a Stylized Scale Model to Codesign with Villagers an Agent-Based Model of Bushmeat Hunting in the Periphery of Korup National Park (Cameroon)

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Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products: four Ps to advance participatory socio‐environmental modeling

Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products: four Ps to advance participatory socio‐environmental modeling

My cattle and your park: codesigning a role-playing game with rural communities to promote multistakeholder dialogue at the edge of protected areas

Informing decisions in agent-based models — A mobile update

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