Montpellier Scientific Community



Renewable resources and environment management (GREEN)

Director: Martine Antona
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Research area
The Renewable resources and environment management unit (GREEN) develops conceptual and technical tools designed for representing eco-socio-systems and for modelling the interactions between economic, social, ecological, spatial and temporal dimensions of these systems. Research focuses on the plural viewpoints and knowledge of stakeholders (experts and laymen) at various levels of organisation, and develops procedures for the use of these tools. Experimental research involves both local stakeholders and scientists in management processes ranging from collective learning and negotiation, to collective decision making.
Research highlights
  • Complexity sciences and modeling
  • Participatory research
  • Environmental sociology and economics
  • Agrobiodiversity
Staff profile
Research Org.Researchers ProfessorsResearch Eng.

Techn. & Admin Staff

PhD
Cirad
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Research teams
  • Participative research on management processes and institutions (biodiversity and agrobiodiversity, forest resources, land use...)
  • Analysis and Modeling of sustainable development (interactions between society and the environment) through companion modeling
  • Complex systems science (development of tools adapted to modeling complex systems)
Platforms and other tools
Two dedicated software platforms have been developed:
  • Natural resources and multi-agent simulations (CORMAS), a programming environment to construct multi-agent simulation models for modeling renewable resource management. http://cormas.cirad.fr/indexeng.htm
  • Computerized Methods for Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (MIMOSA) - MIMOSA is a generic platform for modeling and simulation, using an extensible variety of formalisms. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mimosa
A scientific network dedicated to exchanges on companion modeling experiments: http://commod.org/
Most important international partnerships
  • Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
  • University of Brasilia (UNB) (Brazil)
  • University of Canberra (Australia)
  • University of Wageningen (WUR) (The Netherlands)
Representative publications
1. Asseng S., Dray A., Perez P., Su X. 2010. Rainfall-human-spatial interactions in a salinity-prone agricultural region of the Western Australian wheat-belt. Ecological modelling, 221 (5) : 812-824.
2. Lagabrielle E., Botta A., Daré W., David D., Aubert S., Fabricius C. 2010. Modelling with stakeholders to integrate biodiversity into land-use planning - Lessons learned in Réunion Island (Western Indian Ocean). Environmental modelling and software, 25 (11) : 1413-1427.
3. Souchère V., Millair L., Echeverria J., Bousquet F., Le Page C., Etienne M. 2010. Co-constructing with stakeholders a role-playing game to initiate collective management of erosive runoff risks at the watershed scale. Environmental modelling and software, 25 (11) : 1359-1370.
4. Von Korff Y., D'Aquino P., Daniell K.A., Bijlsma R. 2010. Synthesis, part of a special feature on implementing participatory water management: recent advances in theory, practice and evaluation. Ecology and Society, 15 (1).
5. d'Aquino, P. 2009. La participation comme élément d'une stratégie globale d'intervention: l'approche «gestion autonome progressive». Cahiers Agricultures 18(5): 433-440.
6. Dung L.C., Hoanh C.T., Le Page C., Bousquet F., Gajaseni N. 2009. Facilitating dialogue between aquaculture and agriculture: Lessons from role-playing games with farmers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Water policy, 11, (suppl. 1): 80-93.
7. Laperrière V., Badariotti D., Banos A., Müller .-P. 2009. Structural validation of an individual-based model for plague epidemics simulation. Ecological complexity, 6, (2): 102-112.
8. Levrel H., Etienne M., Kerbiriou M., Le Page C . 2009. Co-modelling process, negotiations, and power relations: Some outputs from a MAB project on the Island of Ouessant. Society and natural resources, 22, (2): 172-188.
9. Vinatier F., Tixier P., Le Page C., Duyck P.F., Lescourret F. 2009. COSMOS, a spatially explicit model to simulate the epidemiology of Cosmopolites sordidus in banana fields. Ecological modelling, 220, (18): 2244-2254. -
10. Bazile D., Abrami G., Trébuil G., Le Page C., Bousquet F., Dionnet M., Vejpas C. 2008. Accompagner l'évolution des systèmes semenciers céréaliers au Mali et en Thaïlande. Cahiers Agricultures, 17, (2): 210-215.
11. Bazile D., Dembélé S., Soumaré M., Dembele D. 2008. Utilisation de la diversité variétale du sorgho pour valoriser la diversité des sols au Mali. Cahiers Agricultures, 17, (2): 86-94.