Journal
HUMAN ECOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 3, Pages 453-467Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9469-4
Keywords
Irrigation; Bali; Water temples; Complex adaptive systems
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- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1144405] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In earlier publications we have proposed a model to explain the functional role of water temple networks in the agro-ecology of wet rice irrigation on the island of Bali. We argued that the key ecological effects of temple networks are best understood as emergent properties of a complex adaptive system. This argument implies that important aspects of the temple system are largely opaque from the perspective of conventional social science. We proposed that the Green Revolution created a real-world test of our model, by effectively removing the temple networks from their functional role in ecological management. The idea that water temple networks represent a hitherto-unknown kind of institution has been met with appropriate skepticism by other social scientists, who have run a fine-toothed comb through our evidence. Here we evaluate their critiques.
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