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| Daloğlu, Irem; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; daloglu@umich.edu; Nassauer, Joan Iverson; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; nassauer@umich.edu; Riolo, Rick; Center for the Studies of Complex Systems, University of Michigan; rlriolo@umich.edu; Scavia, Donald; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan; scavia@umich.edu. |
| We present a modeling framework that synthesizes social, economic, and ecological aspects of landscape change to evaluate how different agricultural policy and land tenure scenarios and land management preferences affect landscape pattern and downstream water quality. We linked a stylized agent-based model (ABM) of farmers’ conservation practice adoption decisions with a water quality model, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), to simulate the water quality effects of changing land tenure dynamics and different policies for crop revenue insurance in lieu of commodity payments over 41 years (1970–2010) for a predominantly agricultural watershed of Lake Erie. Results show that non-operator owner involvement in land management... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: ABM; Agricultural policy; Agriculture; Conservation practice; Integrated modeling; SWAT; Water quality. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Lancelotti, Carla; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; carla.lancelotti@upf.edu; Zurro, Debora; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; debora@imf.csic.es; Whitehouse, Nicki J.; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK; nicola.whitehouse@plymouth.ac.uk; Kramer, Karen L.; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; karen.kramer@anthro.utah.edu; Madella, Marco; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; marco.madella@icrea.cat; Greaves, Russell D.; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; russell.greaves@anthro.utah.edu. |
| The origins of agriculture and the shift from hunting and gathering to committed agriculture is regarded as one of the major transitions in human history. Archeologists and anthropologists have invested significant efforts in explaining the origins of agriculture. A period of gathering intensification and experimentation and pursuing a mixed economic strategy seems the most plausible explanation for the transition to agriculture and provides an approach to study a process in which several nonlinear processes may have played a role. However, the mechanisms underlying the transition to full agriculture are not completely clear. This is partly due to the nature of the archeological record, which registers a practice only once it has become clearly... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: ABM; Resources; Social-ecological dynamics; Subsistence strategies; Transition to agriculture. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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