Integrating models of human behaviour between the individual and population levels to inform conservation interventions.

ABSTRACT: Conservation takes place within social-ecological systems, and many conservation interventions aim to influence human behaviour in order to push these systems towards sustainability. Predictive models of human behaviour are potentially powerful tools to support these interventions. This is particularly true if the models can link the attributes and behaviour of individuals with the dynamics of the social and environmental systems within which they operate. Here we explore this potential by showing how combining two modelling approaches (social network analysis, SNA, and agent-based modelling, ABM) could lead to more robust insights into a particular type of conservation intervention. We use our simple model, which simulates knowledge of ranger patrols through a hunting community and is bas

SUBMITTER: Dobson ADM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6710576 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature