Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion

Briot, Jean-Pierre; Irving, Marta de Azevedo; Filho, José Eurico Vasconcelos; Melo, Gustavo Mendes de; Alvarez, Isabelle; Sordoni, Alessandro; Lucena, Carlos José Pereira de

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-1756-6.ch013

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“…A first version of the computer prototype was then designed and implemented on top of Simulación, the platform designed by Paul Guyot (2006), as a first proof of concept (Briot et al, 2007). Based on this, we then designed a second version of the prototype, that we will now describe.…”

Section: Test Of the Simparc Game Version 1 Without Computer Suppomentioning

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Multi-Agent-Based Simulations Applied to Biological and Environmental Systems

Adamatti¹

2017

Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics

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The objective of this paper is to reflect on our experience in a serious game research project, named SimParc, about multi-agent support for participatory management of protected areas for biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. Our project has a clear filiation with the MAS-RPG methodology developed by the ComMod action-research community, where multi-agent simulation (MAS) computes the dynamics of the resources and role-playing game (RPG) represents the actions and dialogue between stakeholders about the resources. We have explored some specific directions, such as: dialogue support for negotiation; argumentation-based decision making and its explanation; technical assistance to the players based on viability modeling. In our project, multi-agent based simulation focuses on the negotiation process itself, performed by human players and some artificial participants/agents, rather than on the simulation of the resources dynamics. Meanwhile, we have also reintroduced the modeling of the socioecosystem dynamics, but as a local technical assistance/analysis tool for the players.

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Multi-Agent-Based Simulations Applied to Biological and Environmental Systems

Adamatti¹

2017

Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics

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“…A special role is the park manager, who acts as an arbitrator in the game, making a final decision about the types of conservation, justifying (or, at least, explaining) its decision to the stakeholders. Our research project [2] explores the use of various advanced computer techniques as a support for assistance to the players. One of the approaches explored is the use of argumentation systems, as a support for decision and for negotiation, and last but not the least, for explanation.…”

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“…We have designed a serious game (more precisely a role-playing game), inspired by real management of national parks in Brazil [2]. The objective is to train people about participatory management of protected areas, allowing players to explore negotiation strategies in order to address conflicting views: in these protected areas, the stakeholders (such as environmentalist, tourism operator, traditional population representative, etc.…”

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Practical Reasoning in an Argumentation-based Decision BDI Agent: a Case Study for Participatory Management of Protected Areas

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Viana³

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International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Abstract-This paper describes the implementation of an argumentation system used for participatory management of environmental protected areas, more precisely to model the decision of a park manager artificial agent. This implementation is based on a BDI agent architecture, namely the Jason/AgentSpeak framework/language. After introducing the principles of BDI architecture and of argumentation systems, we will detail how we model arguments within the BDI (BeliefDesire-Intention) architecture. Then, we present the argumentation-based model of deliberation and decision by the park manager agent as a case study. We show how our argument-based approach allows to model various cognitive profiles of park managers (more conservationist or more sensitive to social issues), through different knowledge bases. We show examples of decisions produced by the park manager agent and examples of traces of arguments used during deliberation, which could be a base for explaining decisions. Before concluding, we point out future directions, such as using argumentation as a basis for negotiation between various agents.

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“…Briot, Guyot, and Irving identify several further benefits to the agent-based participatory simulation approach. First, agentbased participatory simulation enables the participation of stakeholders who are geographically distant [32]. Second, in the event that not enough human participants are available to take part in the simulation, some participants to be replaced by artificial agents [32].…”

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“…First, agentbased participatory simulation enables the participation of stakeholders who are geographically distant [32]. Second, in the event that not enough human participants are available to take part in the simulation, some participants to be replaced by artificial agents [32]. Briot, et al, uses the approach to implement "SimParc," an agent-based participatory simulation framework designed to explore participatory management of protected areas, such as national parks [32,33].…”

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Global Water Games: A General Participatory, Agent-Based Modeling Platform for Watershed System Management

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Watershed system management is becoming an increasingly important problem in the face of continuing growth in population, economic activity, and agricultural production worldwide. Watershed systems provide human society with numerous critical economic and ecosystem services. But effective management of watershed systems can be extremely difficult. Watershed systems are not simple systems-they are complex socio-ecological systems with many stakeholders who often have diverse and often competing interests. To facilitate effective watershed system management, decision makers around the world need better tools to help them explore the vast array of policy options available to them and build consensus among different types of stakeholders. The UVa Bay Game® is a multidisciplinary attempt to address these myriad and complex management challenges for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. It applies a spatially explicit, agent-based, participatory simulation framework to modeling the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, presented in a "serious game" format. Its validated modeling approach brings together local decision makers and a variety of Watershed stakeholders, enabling them to explore the effects of different policy choices and learn about the systemic nature of the challenges facing the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This thesis presents the Global Water Games platform-a general, participatory, agent-based modeling framework for watershed system management. It expands and generalizes the modeling approach of the UVa Bay Game®, making it flexible enough to adapt to a variety of watershed stakeholder needs and objectives. The reusable and extensible Global Water Games platform allows modelers and stakeholders to build similar participatory, agent-based watershed simulation "games" for any watershed iv" system around the world, provided basic input data is available. Models built using the Global Water Games platform support effective watershed system management through the dual purposes of providing policy decision support and facilitating social learning among watershed system stakeholders. v" 4. Technical Approach.

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Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion

Cited by 7 publications

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Multi-Agent-Based Simulations Applied to Biological and Environmental Systems

Multi-Agent-Based Simulations Applied to Biological and Environmental Systems

Practical Reasoning in an Argumentation-based Decision BDI Agent: a Case Study for Participatory Management of Protected Areas

Global Water Games: A General Participatory, Agent-Based Modeling Platform for Watershed System Management

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