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

职业：开放获取的田园管理：复杂适应系统的出现该学院早期职业发展（CAREER）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田园管理的理解。具体而言，该项目考察了喀麦隆远北省洛贡洪泛平原的流动牧民如何协调他们的行动，以避免冲突和在通常被称为开放获取的土地权属制度下的过度放牧，这种情况通常被认为会导致公地悲剧。假设是，这种管理系统最好被理解为新兴复杂性的一个例子，其中个人决策，牧民之间的运动协调以及信息共享网络的参与导致了一个复杂的适应性系统的出现，在这个系统中，放牧资源的获取和使用得到了管理。这一假设将在一项综合了空间和人种学分析以及多主体模拟和分析建模的牧区流动性多学科研究中得到验证。这项研究对其生态和理论意义至关重要。这项研究将阐明这些紧急系统如何在没有中央协调的情况下运作，以管理西非的牧场，在那里开放获取系统很常见。本研究结果可应用于全球共有财产资源的管理。此外，该项目将是第一个将复杂适应系统理论应用于牧场管理的项目之一。该项目还有一个重要的教育组成部分。它将培养来自多个学科的本科生和研究生，使他们成为新一代的科学家和政策制定者，他们拥有分析复杂环境问题所需的跨学科技能和视角，并为解决这些问题做出贡献。将作出特别努力，从传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体中招收少数民族学生。一部分资金将用于支持实验室设施的开发，供本科生和研究生进行人种学、统计和空间分析、多主体模拟和复杂社会生态系统的分析建模。

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.