How to cope with Global Change ? On the potential of ecological‐economic modelling for institutional design
Ensuring sustainability in face of the multitude of ongoing processes of Global Change (e.g.climate change, land use change, social change, institutional change) represents one of the grand challenges of the future.This is especially urgent in the context of rangeland management in semi‐arid regions.Strategies and policies are needed that allow coping with the impacts of Global Change on rangelands such as the increasing scarcity and variability in the precipitation, population growth, or globalization.The development of such strategies, however, requires insight into the relationship between institutional settings, management decisions and the long‐term ecological‐economic effects on the rangeland induced and into the impacts of the processes of Global Change on the functioning of the overall system.With such a dynamic understanding, key factors of sustainability can be determined and conclusions regarding the design of appropriate institutional settings for rangeland management can be drawn.The paper aims to demonstrate that ecological‐economic modelling is a powerful approach to contribute to the development of sustainable solutions.
Sustainable rangeland management global change institutional settings modelling
K.Frank B.Müller
Department of Ecological Modelling,Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ,Leipzig,Permoserstr.15,D-04318 Leipzig,Germany
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）