Everybody is invited to submit a paper for two special sessions at the 2015 Social Simulation Conference (SSC): SIG Qual2Rule – Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules and Modelling Social Science Aspects of Fisheries. The conference will take place from September 14-18 in Groningen, The Netherlands and the current deadline for full papers, extended abstracts and posters is set to April 13th.
ESSA Special Interest Group Qual2Rule – Using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules
More details about the SIG can be found here.
Modelling social science aspects of fisheries
Fisheries worldwide are in a bad shape, with almost 90% of the stocks being overexploited or fully exploited. This critical situation requires a new way of thinking about fisheries management. Integrating social sciences aspects into the modelling of fisheries as a socio-ecological complex system might be such a direction. Fisheries management is about managing people and not fish, therefore analyzing social behavior in the fisheries context might result in better management solutions. Submissions focusing on any aspects of fisheries management are welcome, including (but not restricted to): social norms and self organization of fishers, applications of Ostrom’s suggestions for managing social commons, simulations that combine complex representations of society and complex ecological models, simulations as public educational tools, participatory simulations of fisheries
Your contribution to any these two sessions is welcome! When submitting your work on any of these topics in Easychair, you are kindly asked you to select one of these sessions. You can do so by ticking the relevant box at the end of the submission form.