A model describing Community Rangelands in Southern Africa (CoRiSA).

The CoRiSA model integrates ecological and socio-economic factors to illustrate the relationships and dependencies between communities, or individual farmers, and the natural resources. The major components of CoRiSA include submodels for both biophysical and socio-economic factors. The model, combined with GIS methods, will be used as a tool to assist in the evaluation of natural resource management systems, environmental impacts, alternative strategies and income sources and policy options available to rural communities. (author's abstract)

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Mobbs, D.; Lawson, G.; Young, E.
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Mobbs, D., Lawson, G. and Young, E. 2001. A model describing Community Rangelands in Southern Africa (CoRiSA). 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 6-8, 2001.

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Conference and Working Papers
Conference Paper
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2001
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