Nash Equilibrium in a forest landscape with ecological-social coupling
08/4/15, 15:00 at Room 3631 (6th floor of building 3 of the Faculty of Sciences)
We studied land-use in a forested landscape using a game theory framework. We assumed that a forest is composed of a number of land parcels that are individually managed by landowners. Each land parcel is either in the forested, agricultural or abandoned state. The state transition of each parcel is described by a Markov chain and considers successional dynamics of the forest ecosystem and landowner's decision. We considered coupled ecological-social dynamics between neighbour land parcels. If one landowner decides to cut trees we assume that the ecosystem services of neighbour forested and agricultural land parcels become degraded. The landowners choose the land-use state - forested or agricultural - according to the expected discounted utilities which dependents on the neighbours' decisions.
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