CAREER: Pastoral Management of Open Access: The Emergence of a Complex Adaptive System

职业：开放获取的田园管理：复杂自适应系统的出现

• 批准号: 0748594
• 负责人: Mark Moritz
• 金额: $ 53.07万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0748594&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Pastoral; Management; Open; Access

CAREER: Pastoral Management of Open Access: The Emergence of a Complex Adaptive SystemThis Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award will fund research by Dr. Mark Moritz, Ohio State University, to advance our understanding of pastoral management of social-ecological systems. Specifically, the project examines how mobile pastoralists in the Logone floodplain in the Far North Province of Cameroon coordinate their movements to avoid conflict and overgrazing in a land tenure system that is commonly described as open access, a situation generally regarded as leading to a tragedy of the commons. The hypothesis is that this management system is best understood as a case of emerging complexity, in which individual decision-making, coordination of movements among pastoralists, and participation in an information sharing network result in the emergence of a complex adaptive system in which access to and use of grazing resources is managed. The hypothesis will be tested in a multidisciplinary study of pastoral mobility that integrates spatial and ethnographic analyses as well as multi-agent simulations and analytical modeling. The research is critically important for its ecological and theoretical implications. The research will elucidate how these emergent systems work without central coordination to manage rangelands across West Africa, where open access systems are common. The findings from this research can be applied to the management of common property resources worldwide. In addition, this project will be one of the first to apply theories of complex adaptive systems to rangeland management.The project also has a significant educational component. It will train undergraduate and graduate students from multiple disciplines to become the new generation of scientists and policy makers who have the interdisciplinary skill set and perspective needed to analyze complex environmental problems and contribute to their solution. A special effort will be made to recruit minority students from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in the sciences. A portion of the funding will support the development of lab facilities for use by undergraduate and graduate students conducting ethnographic, statistical, and spatial analysis, multi-agent simulations, and analytical modeling of complex social-ecological systems.

职业：开放访问的牧师管理：复杂自适应系统的出现这一早期职业发展（职业）奖将资助俄亥俄州立大学Mark Moritz博士的研究，以促进我们对社会生态系统的牧师管理的理解。具体而言，该项目探讨了喀麦隆远处的logone洪泛区中的移动牧民如何协调其运动，以避免冲突和在土地终身制系统中过度放牧，而该系统通常被描述为开放式通道，这种情况通常被视为导致下议院的狂暴。假设是，最好将这种管理系统理解为一种新兴复杂性的情况，在这种情况下，个人决策，牧师之间的运动协调以及参与信息共享网络的参与导致出现了复杂的自适应系统，在该系统中，可以管理和使用放牧资源。该假设将在整合空间和民族志分析以及多代理模拟和分析建模的田园流动性的多学科研究中进行检验。这项研究对于其生态和理论意义至关重要。这项研究将阐明这些新兴系统如何在没有中央协调的情况下如何运作，以管理整个西非的牧场，那里的开放访问系统很普遍。这项研究的发现可以应用于全球共同财产资源的管理。此外，该项目将是第一个将复杂自适应系统理论应用于牧场管理的项目之一。该项目还具有重要的教育组成部分。它将培训来自多个学科的本科生和研究生，成为新一代的科学家和政策制定者，他们具有分析复杂环境问题并为解决方案做出贡献所需的跨学科技能和观点。将为科学中传统上人数不足的团体招募少数族裔学生做出特别的努力。一部分资金将支持开发实验室设施，以供本科和研究生进行人种学，统计和空间分析，多代理模拟以及复杂社会生态系统的分析建模。