The evolution of self-organizing communication networks in high-risk social-ecological systems
The evolution of self-organizing communication networks in high-risk social-ecological systems
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DOI：
10.18352/ijc.463
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Berardo, Ramiro
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作者：
Berardo, Ramiro
最近发表的研究表明，地区性通信网络的成员根据他们与他人交流的风险程度来形成联系：低风险情况下有利于建立解决协调问题的桥梁结构，而高风险情况下会建立联系结构，使叛逃更有可能被发现和惩罚。这一基本预期已经在低风险的区域领域得到了检验，在那里确实形成了更多的桥梁结构(Berardo和Scholz，2010)。然而，在高危社会生态系统(HRSES)中还没有关于网络形成的经验证据。在这篇文章中，我研究了阿根廷一个小流域利益相关者之间的沟通网络，该流域在过去几十年里一直受到高水平的环境压力，并实证测试是否会在这个高风险的SE系统中形成更多的联系结构。研究结果表明，正如预期的那样，网络中的参与者有创建更多三元键结构的趋势。然而，互补的结果提供了一幅关于网络在高风险区域环境中的样子的更微妙的图景，并告诫不要过于乐观地将网络中的联系与区域规模的集体行动问题的解决联系起来。
Recently published research shows that members of regional communication networks form links based on how risky their exchanges with others may be: low-risk situations favor the creation of bridging structures that solve coordination problems, whereas high-risk situations lead to the establishment of bonding structures that make detection and punishment of defection more likely. This basic expectation has been tested in low-risk regional arenas, where indeed more bridging structures formed in time (Berardo and Scholz 2010). However, no empirical evidence on the formation of networks has been produced yet in high-risk social-ecological systems (HRSES). In this article, I study the network of communication among stakeholders in a small river basin in Argentina that has been subject to high levels of environmental stress over the last decades and empirically test whether more bonding structures tend to form in this high-risk SE system. Findings show that actors in the network have a tendency to create more triadic bonding structures, as expected. However, complementary results offer a more nuanced picture of how networks look like in highly-risky regional settings and caution against an overly optimistic view linking bonding in networks to the solution of collective action problems of a regional scale.