@article{fdi:010034787,
  title = {{P}articipatory simulation of land-use changes in the northern mountains of {V}ietnam : the combined use of an agent-base model, a role-playing game, and a geographic information system},
  author = {{C}astella, {J}ean-{C}hristophe and {T}ran {N}goc {T}rung and {B}oissau, {S}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n {V}ietnam, the remarkable economic growth that resulted from the doi moi (renovation) reforms was based largely on the rural households that had become the new basic unit of agricultural production in the early 1990s. {T}he technical, economic, and social changes that accompanied the decollectivization process transformed agricultural production, resource management, land use, and the institutions that defined access to resources and their distribution. {C}ombined with the extreme biophysical, technical, and social heterogeneity encountered in the northern mountains, these rapid changes led to the extreme complexity of the agrarian dynamics that today challenges traditional diagnostic approaches. {S}ince 1999, a participatory simulation method has been developed to disentangle the cause-and-effect relationships between the different driving forces and changes in land use observed at different scales. {S}everal tools were combined to understand the interactions between human and natural systems, including a narrative conceptual model, an agent-based spatial computational model ({ABM}), a role-playing game, and a multiscale geographic information system ({GIS}). {W}e synthesized into an {ABM} named {SAMBA}-{GIS} the knowledge generated from the above tools applied to a representative sample of research sites. {T}he model takes explicitly into account the dynamic interactions among: (1) farmers' strategies, i.e., the individual decision-making process as a function of the farm's resource profile; (2) the institutions that define resource access and usage; and (3) changes in the biophysical and socioeconomic environment. {T}he next step consisted of coupling the {ABM} with the {GIS} to extrapolate the application of local management rules to a whole landscape. {S}imulations are initialized using the layers of the {GIS}, e.g., land use in 1990, accessibility, soil characteristics, etc., and statistics available at the village level, e.g., population, ethnicity, livestock, etc. {A}t each annual time step, the agrarian landscape changes according to the decisions made by agent-farmers about how to allocate resources such as labor force, capital, and land to different productive activities, e.g., crops, livestock, gathering of forest products, off-farm activities. {T}he participatory simulations based on {SAMBA}-{GIS} helped identify villages with similar land-use change trajectories to which the same types of technical and/or institutional innovations could be applied. {S}cenarios of land-use changes were developed with local stakeholders to assess the potential impact of these changes on the natural resource base and on agricultural development. {T}his adaptive approach was gradually refined through interactions between researchers and the local population.},
  keywords = {{UTILISATION} {DU} {SOL} ; {AGRICULTURE} ; {DEVELOPPEMENT} {RURAL} ; {AIDE} {A} {LA} {DECISION} ; {HAUTE} {ALTITUDE} ; {VILLAGE} ; {COUVERT} {VEGETAL} ; {MODELE} ; {SYSTEME} {D}'{INFORMATION} {GEOGRAPHIQUE} ; {ZONE} {DE} {MONTAGNE} ; {SYSTEME} {MULTI} {AGENT} ; {JEU} {DE} {ROLE} ; {VIET} {NAM} ; {BAC} {KAN}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}cology and {S}ociety},
  volume = {10},
  numero = {1},
  pages = {1--27},
  ISSN = {1708-3087},
  year = {2005},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010034787},
}