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)
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.