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

职业生涯：开放获取的牧场管理：复杂适应系统的出现这一教师早期职业发展(CALE)奖将资助俄亥俄州立大学的马克·莫里茨博士的研究，以促进我们对社会生态系统的牧场管理的理解。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，以避免在通常被称为开放获取的土地保有权制度中发生冲突和过度放牧，这种情况通常被认为是导致公地悲剧的原因。其假设是，最好将这种管理系统理解为一种新出现的复杂性的情况，在这种情况下，个人决策、牧民之间的行动协调以及参与信息共享网络导致出现一个复杂的适应系统，在该系统中，放牧资源的获取和使用得到管理。这一假设将在一项关于牧民流动的多学科研究中得到验证，该研究整合了空间和人种学分析以及多主体模拟和分析建模。这项研究具有重要的生态学意义和理论意义。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工作，以管理整个西非的牧场，那里的开放接入系统很常见。这项研究的结果可以应用于全球公共财产资源的管理。此外，这个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。该项目还具有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，成为新一代科学家和政策制定者，他们拥有分析复杂环境问题并为解决问题做出贡献所需的跨学科技能和视角。将做出特别努力，从传统上在科学界代表性不足的群体中招收少数族裔学生。其中一部分资金将支持开发实验室设施，供本科生和研究生使用，进行人种学、统计学和空间分析、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.