Conference:
Abstract: "Nowadays, the economic and alimentary well-being of most societies is related to a sustainable use of their natural environment. With the environmental changes and with increasing human needs, population growth and economic growth this interaction is often upset. Therefore there is a need to build new resource sharing rules. The sustainability of society-resource interaction is often controlled by regulating the access to space. One of the major problems concerning resources such as wild fauna or fish communities is that the resource may move or migrate among the different parts of space, following the different seasons of the year. The dynamics of this space-resource must be taken into account. Modeling and simulation may be an efficient tool to explore the consequences of diverse modes of collective appropriation. We worked out a simulator, based on multi-agents simulation system, in order to simulate the behaviour of an artificial ecosystem which is a model of the Niger inland delta fishery. We simulate the dynamics of several fish species moving in a patchy environment with climatic variability. Then we have represented artificial fishermen and we simulate various hypothesis of 'space-resource' sharing rules (protected areas, open access, fishing licenses, indigenous rules). We compare and discuss the results of the simulations."