Emilie is a PhD student at the centre. Her research is focused on the theoretical aspects of dynamic social networks in natural resource management. She works with agent based models in complex adaptive systems, applying the resilience framework to study patterns and phenomena.Her research questions are broadly:
1) What are the criteria for self-organizing social ecological systems for sustainable governance?
2) What are the criteria for maximizing resilience in this self-organizing system.
Particularly she will study the exploitation of a common property resource (typically a renewable natural resource) and focusing on ecological aspects as threshold dynamics, spatial variability, cascading interactions and time-lags and the social aspects of the importance of local vs. global norms, heterogeneity among people, and networking aspects as bridging and bonding.
In her first paper she studies the trade-offs between memory and learning, and how they affect the possibility to adapt to change.
She has a background in Mathematics and Computer Science and started working at Systems Ecology as a software developer and modeler for Dr. Jon Norberg in 2004, and was accepted as a PhD student in 2007.
