Competitive scenarios, community responses and organisational implications
QUT Faculty of Science and Technology presents
Dr. Fabio Boschetti, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
Competitive scenarios, community responses and organisational implications
When: 2PM, Thursday 20th August 2009
Where: QUT Gardens Point, B block room 506.
The Speaker
Dr. Fabio Boschetti has a background in numerical optimisation and signal processing in geoscientific problems. He then started to be interested in Complex System Science, focusing on the challenges and limitations of modelling complex processes via numerical simulation. More recently he turned to ecological modelling and the problem of providing numerical tools to facilitate the management of renewable resources. More information about his work and the full list of publications can be found at http://www.per.marine.csiro.au/staff/Fabio.Boschetti/
The Topic
We analyse four scenarios commonly encountered in social processes undergoing competitive pressures: resource depletion by individuals acting greedily (‘tragedy of the commons’), wasted opportunity due to over protective players (‘tragedy of the anticommons’), crowd following (‘majority wins’) and competition for niches (‘minority wins’). We show that these scenarios are extremes of a continuous resource exploitation problem and that complex and counter-intuitive behaviours are found at the transitions between ‘pure’ scenarios. We discuss the likely community behaviours and under what conditions a centralised management intervention may play a role in the resource and community resilience.
