Rice fields as self organizing systems
The recently published paper Adaptive self-organization of Bali’s ancient rice terraces in PNAS from CSH’s J. Stephen Lansing, Stefan Thurner, et al. was chosen as one of the Research Highlights in Nature Human Behaviour.
“This work suggests that culturally informed, local-scale decision-making in human–environment interactions can lead to optimized maintenance of the commons on a regional scale”, states John Carson in his article “A chain of cooperation”, that appeared in the July 2017 issue of the journal.
