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Achieving cooperation among competing groups, particularly in the sphere of social and ecological resources, is an extremely daunting realm of ecosystem management. This paper presents a multiagent model of the activities of two such competing groups-native farmers and logging companies-using common pool natural resources, namely virgin forests. In the model presented, native and logging agents deal with conflicting personal development and ecological conservation objectives. The simulation results clearly depict that emergence of cooperative behavior among the agent groups ensures that indiscriminate exploitation of vast amounts of natural resources is avoided at the cost of only a relatively small compromise on development activities. Also, the role of external (possibly government) agents is highlighted as effective information exchange promoters.
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Srivastava, R., Kaldate, A. (2002). Evolving Cooperative Ecosystems: A Multi-agent Simulation of Deforestation Activities. In: Collet, P., Fonlupt, C., Hao, JK., Lutton, E., Schoenauer, M. (eds) Artificial Evolution. EA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2310. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46033-0_26
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