要 旨:
Companion Modelling (Commod) is a participatory approach designed to facilitate
integrated renewable resource management (IRRM), coordination and negotiation
processes, and collective learning and action among heterogeneous stakeholders
facing a common concrete resource management problem (land degradation,
water sharing, biodiversity conservation, etc.) at the village community
or regional levels.
This innovative Commod methodology organizes the co-construction of a shared
representation of the problem and the collective exploration of selected
scenarios of the future. Commod is combining different research tools such
as syntheses on existing knowledge, complementary field surveys, role-playing
games and multi-agent simulations.
Commod has been tested and adapted at a dozen of pilot sites in five SE
Asian countries over the last five years and more than 40 case studies
using this approach are currently being developed globally.
The seminar will present the justification for using this approach for
IRRM in complex agroecosystems, as well as its key principles and original
characteristics. The talk will be illustrated by the results of a pilot
experiment aiming at the mitigation of land degradation and social inequity
processes in the highlands of upper northern Thailand. The lessons from
recent case studies and the research perspectives to further improve the
Commod approach will also be examined.