The Green unit’s 2015-2019 project aims to respond to 6 issues and revolves around several research topics.

Six issues

Social issues

• Promoting equitable access to renewable resources
• Fostering science-society dialogue

Thematic issues

• Analyzing the tensions between environmental conservation and development and the role of collective action
• Analyzing the evolution of SES through the lens of adaptation and transformation

Methodological issues

• Articulating viewpoints and integrating heterogeneous knowledge
• Exploring the drafting of regulations and their policy dimensions

Scientific topics addressed

• The sharing and articulation of local and academic knowledge on SES as a form of transdisciplinarity;
• The use of participatory modelling (such as agent based modelling and role playing games) to understand the ‘multipolar’ processes of change;
• The mobilization of public policy instruments and other management methods for designing governance mechanisms and analyzing their overall effects on the evolution of SES;
• The impacts of support measures on the links between science and society.