Iwamura, T. and Lambin, E.F. and Silvius, K.M. and et al, . (2014) Agent-based modeling of hunting and subsistence agriculture on indigenous lands: Understanding interactions between social and ecological systems. Environmental Modelling & Software. pp. 1-19.
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Abstract
Indigenous people of the Rupununi region of Amazonian Guyana interact with their natural environment through hunting and subsistence agriculture. To date the sustainability of indigenous livelihoods has been analyzed by modeling either hunting or forest clearing. Here we develop a holistic model framework with agent-based modeling to examine interactions between demographic growth, hunting, subsistence agriculture, land cover change, and animal population in the Rupununi. We use an extensive field dataset from social surveys, animal observation records and hunting kill locations along with satellite images. The model exhibits feedback loops between a growing human population and depletion of local natural resources. Our model can reproduce the population size of two different villages along with landscape patterns without further calibration. Our model can be used for understanding the conditions of sustainability for indigenous communities relying on subsistence agriculture and hunting, and for scenario analyses to examine the implications of external interventions
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The National Science Foundation (NSF; Grant BE/CNH 05 08094) provided funding, as did the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Indigenous people; Biodiversity; Land use change; Socio-ecological systems; Human and natural systems; Agent-based modeling; Amazon |
| Author Affiliation: | Department of Biology, Stanford University, USA |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences Environmental Science |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Ms Ishrath Durafsha |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2014 10:10 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2014 10:10 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.03.008 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/13243 |
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