Managing complex adaptive systems — A co-evolutionary perspective on natural resource management

This book introduces the companion modelling approach by presenting the stance that underpins it, the methods and tools used with stakeholders and the specific role of models during the process. It addresses the means to deal with the different levels of decision-making and to take into account the various power relationships. It proposes a methodology to assess the impact of the approach on the stakeholders involved in the process.

Companion modelling: a participatory approach to support sustainable development.

Various management approaches have been proposed to address the alarming depletion of marine coastal resources. Prominent among them are community-based management and the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs). The overall poor performance of MPAs can be traced to a failure to effectively include local communities in the design and implementation of relevant measures. Recent efforts have incorporated aspects of community-based management into a hybrid form of management, which ideally builds upon existing local management practices. A key challenge lies in the development of appropriate frameworks that allow for the successful participation of local communities in management. A review of studies on MPA design and community-based marine resource management and fieldwork observations provides suggestions on how to address current socioeconomic shortcomings in MPA design and implementation, successfully involving local communities in order to provide a better local basis for effective larger MPA networks. A combination of MPA tools as the formal frame and community-based natural resource management as the adaptive core that recognizes local communities as allies, not aliens, is needed to develop successful conservation approaches.

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Allies, not aliens: increasing the role of local communities in marine protected area implementation

The purpose of the paper is to review the applications of non-cooperative bargaining theory to water related issues - which fall in the category of formal models of negotiation. The ultimate aim is that to, on the one hand, identify the conditions under which agreements are likely to emerge, and their characteristics; and, on the other hand, to support policy makers in devising the rules of the game that could help obtain a desired result. Despite the fact that allocation of natural resources, especially of trans-boundary nature, has all the characteristics of a negotiation problem, there are not many applications of formal negotiation theory to the issue. Therefore, this paper first discusses the non-cooperative bargaining models applied to water allocation problems found in the literature. Particular attention will be given to those directly modelling the process of negotiation, although some attempts at finding strategies to maintain the efficient allocation solution will also be illustrated. In addition, this paper will focus on Negotiation Support Systems (NSS), developed to support the process of negotiation. This field of research is still relatively new, however, and NSS have not yet found much use in real life negotiation. The paper will conclude by highlighting the key remaining gaps in the literature.

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Applications of Negotiation Theory to Water Issues

Integrative modelling approaches for analysis of impact of multifunctional agriculture: A review for France, Germany and The Netherlands

The purpose of the 1992 French Water Act is to encourage negotiation and dialogue among local stakeholders
within a framework which is very similar to a patrimonial approach. Potential use of models in such post-normal
approaches is analyzed. Two kinds of models are compared: one is agent-based, the other follows a more classical
approach. They are compared according to their contributions as negotiation support tools. This comparison
is based on a specific collective decision process dealing with water allocation at the sub-basin scale, in which
authors are involved. Both are used to support collective decision processes through simulation of resource use
dynamics. Agent-Based Models entail the broadening of spatial information of actors in the process, revealing
inter-connected topics not taken into consideration earlier. This makes it possible to remain relevant, despite the
sometimes rapidly evolving stakes. The central point of this paper is the implementation, within a practical application,
of theories advocating the use of ABM as a collective decision support system. This application promotes
a better understanding of the kind of support ABM provides and the way it does so. This is brought
about more by re-framing the discussion and modifying the representation of the system on the part of the
stakeholders than by providing specific agreements.

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Agent-Based Facilitation of Water Allocation: Case Study in the Drome River Valley

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