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ECOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT SERIES NO. 68, 2009
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: PAUL L.G.VLEK
EDITORS:
MANFRED DENICH CHRISTOPHER MARTIUS AHMAD MANSCHADI JANOS BOGARDI
JULIA SCHINDLER
A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING LAND-USE AND LAND-COVER CHANGE IN
THE ATANKWIDI CATCHMENT OF UPPER EAST GHANA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATING LAND-USE/COVER CHANGE 1 1.1
INTRODUCTION 1
1.2 THE COMPLEXITY OF THE COUPLED HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM OF
LAND-USE/COVER CHANGE 5
1.2.1 FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXITY 5
1.2.2 STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY 7
1.2.3 THE IMPORTANCE OF MODELING LUCC 12
1.3 MODELING LUCC 13
1.3.1 APPROACHES TO MODELING OF LUCC 14
1.3.2 OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAS/LUCC 17
1.3.3 CHALLENGES OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS FOR STUDYING LUCC 18
1.4 PROBLEM STATEMENT AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 19
1.5 OUTLINE OF THESIS 21
MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE 24
2.1 INTRODUCTION 24
2.2 MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM CONCEPTS 25
2.2.1 CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENT 26
2.2.2 CONCEPT OF AGENT 27
2.2.3 AGENT ARCHITECTURE 29
2.2.4 RELATIONS, OPERATIONS AND OPERATORS 35
2.3 COMPUTER PLATFORMS FOR MAS 36
2.4 GH-LUDAS: A PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING LUCC . . ..
39 2.4.1 LANDSCAPE MODULE 40
2.4.2 HUMAN AND DECISION MODULE 41
2.4.3 HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT LINKAGES AND INTERACTIONS 43
2.4.4 GLOBAL-POLICY MODULE 43
2.5 MATERIALS AND METHODS 44
2.5.1 SELECTION OF THE STUDY AREA 44
2.5.2 BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND DATA GENERATION 46
2.5.3 POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND DATA GENERATION 52
SPECIFICATION OF GH-LUDAS 59
3.1 INTRODUCTION 59
3.2 SYSTEM OF HUMAN POPULATION: THE HUMAN MODULE 60
3.2.1 STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSEHOLD AGENT 62
3.2.2 STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSEHOLD AGENT GROUP 69
3.2.3 POPULATION 71
3.3 SYSTEM OF THE ENVIRONMENT: THE LANDSCAPE MODULE 72
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3.3.1 STRUCTURE OF THE LANDSCAPE AGENT 73
3.3.2 ENTIRE LANDSCAPE 77
3.4 STRUCTURE OF THE DECISION MODULE 78
3.4.1 DRY-SEASON PROCEDURES 78
3.4.2 RAINY-SEASON PROCEDURES * 86
3.5 GLOBAL-POLICY MODULE 90
3.5.1 DAM CONSTRUCTION POLICY 90
3.5.2 CREDIT ACCESS POLICY 92
3.5.3 POPULATION DYNAMICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 93
3.6 SIMULATION PROTOCOL OF GH-LUDAS 95
3.6.1 SETUP PROCEDURE 95
3.6.2 TIME-LOOP PROCEDURE 99
4 LAND-USE DECISIONS BY HETEROGENEOUS HOUSEHOLD AGENTS . . 103 4.1
INTRODUCTION 103
4.2 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SETTING OF THE STUDY AREA 104
4.2.1 LIVING CONDITIONS 104
4.2.2 LAND TENURE 105
4.2.3 AGRICULTURAL LAND USE 106
4.2.4 MAIN CROPPING SYSTEMS 108
4.3 MODELING LIVELIHOOD GROUPS I LL
4.3.1 IDENTIFICATION OF LIVELIHOOD GROUPS 112
4.3.2 AGENT CATEGORIZER 121
4.4 MODELING LAND-USE DECISIONS 122
4.4.1 MODELING CHOICES AMONG LAND-USE TYPES 122
4.4.2 MODELING IRRIGATION-RELATED DECISIONS 133
4.5 SUMMARY 139
5 ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPE AGENTS 143
5.1 , INTRODUCTION 143
5.2 CHARACTERIZATION OF HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPE AGENTS AND MODELING OF
RELEVANT ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES 144
5.2.1 LANDSCAPE CHARACTERIZATION 145
5.2.2 MODELING AGRICULTURAL YIELD RESPONSE 157
5.2.3 MODELING LIVESTOCK DYNAMICS 171
5.2.4 LAND-COVER TRANSFORMATION MODEL 173
5.3 SUMMARY 175
6 SCENARIO ASSESSMENT OF LAND-USE/COVER AND LIVELIHOOD CHANGES IN THE
ATANKWIDI CATCHMENT 177
6.1 INTRODUCTION 177
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6.2 SELECTION OF USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS IN GH-LUDAS: LAND-USE POLICIES,
DE-
MOGRAPHY, AND CLIMATE CHANGE 180
6.3 DEVELOPING AN OPERATIONAL GH-LUDAS FOR POLICY DECISION PURPOSES 186
6.3.1 METHODOLOGY 186
6.3.2 RESULTS 188
6.4 DEFINITION, SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED SCENARIOS 194
6.4.1 METHODOLOGY 194
6.4.2 RESULTS 197
7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 215
7.1 SUMMARY 215
7.2 LIMITATIONS 221
7.3 RECOMMENDATIONS 222
7.4 GENERAL REMARKS ABOUT MODELING 226
8 REFERENCES 228
9 APPENDICES 239
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