Resilience of SES from a Resource-Economics Perspective

用户群体的大规模转变和土地利用的变化是东非和南部非洲大草原当今社会生态动态的特征。不断变化的人口和市场环境以及机构动态--例如，资源使用权的改变--正在推动这些变化。资源经济学将侧重于通过对生态系统、这些生态系统包含的资源以及在所述SES中使用和管理这些资源的人类社区之间的相互作用进行建模，加强自然科学和社会科学之间的联系。主要的分析工具将是生物经济数值模拟和对与资源使用管制有关的正式和非正式制度设计的经验分析。该分项目将在奈瓦沙/肯尼亚和塔巴·恩楚/南非开展工作。

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.