Analyzing governance is particularly important for understanding and managing social-ecological systems (SES). Governance systems influence interactions between actors and the ecological system and are in turn influenced by the changes that occur in the actors’ and ecological systems. Agent-based models (ABM) are well adapted for studying SES, for exploring interactions and the resulting collective behavior and for predicting the results of management processes. Considering the potential of ABM to analyze SES, we performed a literature review of the modeling of governance in ABM of SES and highlight the perspectives and challenges surrounding this issue. Our results show in particular that a significant share of the literature is not explicitly based on theories supporting the modeling of governance and actors’ decision making. Regarding the conceptualization of governance, formal and informal institutions are rarely represented compared with diverse modes of governance. The governance modes that are mostly modeled are state interventions whereas the community-based and market-based modes of governance are scarcely represented. Finally, the overview of how interactions between governance and SES are operationalized in ABM highlights two main forms of implementation of governance: variable-based and agent-based implementations. The corresponding sets of models differ in terms of main theoretical background, types of governance modes represented or presence of interactions. Therefore, we recommend moving toward a greater diversity in the representation of governance and toward a better implementation of the dynamics of models, which can be facilitated by the explicit use of theories supporting the modeling of governance and the decision making of actors and by the representation of governance as an agent.

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基于社会生态代理模型的治理：综述

分析治理对于理解和管理社会生态系统 (SES) 尤为重要。治理系统影响行动者和生态系统之间的相互作用，反过来又受到行动者和生态系统中发生的变化的影响。基于代理的模型 (ABM) 非常适合研究 SES、探索交互和由此产生的集体行为以及预测管理过程的结果。考虑到 ABM 分析 SES 的潜力，我们对 SES 的 ABM 治理建模进行了文献回顾，并强调了围绕这个问题的观点和挑战。我们的结果特别表明，很大一部分文献并未明确基于支持治理建模和参与者决策制定的理论。关于治理的概念化，与多种治理模式相比，正式和非正式机构很少被代表。建模最多的治理模式是国家干预，而基于社区和市场的治理模式很少被代表。最后，治理和 SES 之间的交互如何在 ABM 中操作的概述突出了治理的两种主要实施形式：基于变量的实施和基于代理的实施。相应的模型集在主要理论背景、所代表的治理模式类型或互动的存在方面有所不同。因此，我们建议在治理的代表上实现更大的多样性，并更好地实现模型的动态性，