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Subject: CGIAR 2002 Science Award for Outstanding Science Article
From: francois bousquet (bousquet@cirad.fr)
Date: Sat Jan 18 2003 - 06:34:19 CET
For your information. I also extracted part of the paper where the authors refer to what many of us try to do.
All the best
CONSERVATION ECOLOGY AUTHORS WIN AWARD!
Press release by CGIAR:
The 2002 Science Award for Outstanding Science Article went to Jeff Sayer of Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Bruce Campbell of the Indonesia-based Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) for their article in Conservation Ecology. The paper succinctly shows why integrated natural resource management research is necessary to meet the challenges of poverty and environmental sustainability.
Read the article: Sayer, J. A. and B. Campbell. 2001. Research to integrate productivity enhancement, environmental protection, and human development. Conservation Ecology 5(2): 32. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art32
"Negative attitudes toward modeling abound, often based on the heavy data requirements of large and complex simulation models. Although such complex models undoubtedly have their place, we are attracted by the concept of "throw-away" models, working computer-implemented models that are built in a few days to solve a particular problem and then are discarded. Much recent INRM research has used participatory modeling, in which stakeholders assist in the development of models and model results are fed back to communities using participatory techniques such as role plays (Lynam et al. 2002). "
Lynam, T., F. Bousquet, C. Le Page, P. d'Aquino, O. Barreteau, F. Chinembiri, and B. Mombeshora. 2002. Adapting science tpo adaptive managers: spidergrams, belief models, and multi-agent systems modeling. Conservation Ecology 5(2):24. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss2/art24