Resilience of SES from a Resource-Economics Perspective

用户群体的大规模转变和土地使用的变化破坏了东部和南部非洲大草原今天的社会生态动态。不断变化的人口和市场环境以及体制动态-例如获得资源的权利的改变-正在推动这些变化。资源经济学将集中于加强自然科学和社会科学之间的联系，通过模拟生态系统之间的相互作用，这些生态系统所包含的资源，以及在所描述的SES中使用和管理这些资源的人类社区。主要的分析工具将是生物经济数值模拟和对与资源使用监管有关的正式和非正式制度设计的经验分析。该分项目将在肯尼亚的奈瓦沙和南非的塔巴·恩楚开展工作。

Massive transformation of user groups and land use change characterise today’s socialecological dynamics in the savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa. Changing populations and market environments as well as institutional dynamics – for instance altered rights of access to resources – are driving these changes. Resource economics will concentrate on strengthening the link between natural and social sciences by modelling the interaction between ecosystems, the resources that these ecosystems incorporate, and the human communities using and managing these resources in the described SES. The main analytical tools will be bio-economic numerical simulation and the empirical analysis of the formal and informal institutional designs that are relevant for the regulation of resource use. The sub-project will work in Naivasha/Kenya and Thaba Nchu/South Africa.