Pigs, Parties, And Noise: How Stochasticity Impacts The Robustness Of The Tsembaga Cultural ...


Pigs, Parties, And Noise: How Stochasticity Impacts The Robustness Of The Tsembaga Cultural Practices Bruce Rogers, and David Murillo, 2010   We present a probabilistic perspective on sustainable resource usage. A mathematical model is introduced to describe the interplay between a population and its renewable resource base. The amount of effort a society chooses to exert in harvesting its resource is formalized in the model. Using an indigenous population of slash and burn farmers as a...

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