Adapting science to adaptive managers: Spidergrams, belief models, and multi-agent systems modeling

Ecology and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Lynam, Tim ^a   Bousquet, Francois ^b   Le Page, Christophe ^b   D'Aquino, P ^b   Barreteau, Olivier ^c   Chinembiri, Frank ^d   Mombeshora, Bright ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d Agritex   (Zimbabwe)

^e Department of Research and Specialist Services ^*

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Bayesian belief networks; Developing country; Dynamic modeling; Multi agent systems; Participatory modeling; Semiarid rangeland; Senegal; Spidergrams; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249104654     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00320-050224     Document Type: Article

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