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Monitoring of socio-economic systems
-- Ethnical groups and different users of the renewable natural resources;
Traditional forms of social and political organisation;
Types of rights associated to space and the utilization of the main natural
resources (land systems and rights of usage);
Land disputes;
Human demography; density; pyramid of ages; migrations;
The active population in relation with the resources of the rural space;
Activities (time of activity per socio-professional categories and the diverse
registered uses of renewable natural resources);
Methods of management of the rural spaces; production systems;
Agricultural productions (S.I.): croppings, livestock, forest products;
Structure of the habitat (scattered, concentrated, sedentary/nomad);
Human consumption and nutritional methods;
Satisfaction of energetic needs;
Commercialized products;
Micro-economic methods and creation of monetary income for households;
Health and education infrastructures and structures;
- Institutional or political measures likely to have an influence on social and
economic development.
Annex 2
Themes
Information Analysis, Interpretation and
Synthesis-study of Mechanisms
The data collected are analyzed, interpreted and summarized in order to establish
assessments on the state of the environment ("indicators panels") and to attempt and
explain the functioning and the evolution of the ecosystems and the agro-systems.
The following themes will need a particular attention:
- Dynamics of ecosystems, agro-systems and populations (vegetal, animal) of
reference (models of functioning, assessment of losses and gains, models of
functioning, assessment of losses and gains, potentialities);
- Impacts of climatic changes on the environment;
- Impacts of human activities on the environment;
- Interactions between the ecological systems and the social systems;
- Development and/or experimentation of Information Systems on the
Environment and approach methodologies on the mechanisms of desertification.