Application Possibility of Agent-Based Simulation for Consensus Building on the Establishment of Marine Protected Area in Thailand

Abstract

This article describes the comprehensive model integrating environment, marine environment, human activities and human awareness for consensus-building on the establishment of the marine protected area (MPA) in the Rayong coastal area. We propose field survey techniques (Biologging and Ethnography) to construct more accurate model. In particular, by biologging we are able to clarify three dimensional behavioral data of marine animals through time which means the dynamics of spatial-temporal distribution responding to environmental changes. This enables us to build the marine animals onto the model as agent.