Anticipatory Systems and Sustainable Development : Modelling the Genesis and Management of Banded Vegetation Patterns in Niger

p. 146-154

Abstract

Sustainable development, creating no handicap for future generations, requires an anticipatory synchronisation of its different population and economic aspects. Population responses to environmental pressures may be oriented in three main directions : work intensification, migration, and family size limitation. All three of them may be considered as anticipatory strategies. Many semiarid wooded areas present vegetation bands which have been recently modelled. This model can be used for anticipatory management allowing a sustainable production of firewood. Coherent forestry policy, like other economic policies, should induce population changes compatible with the available resources.

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Bibliographical reference

Jean M. Thiéry, « Anticipatory Systems and Sustainable Development : Modelling the Genesis and Management of Banded Vegetation Patterns in Niger », CASYS, 1 | 1998, 146-154.

Electronic reference

Jean M. Thiéry, « Anticipatory Systems and Sustainable Development : Modelling the Genesis and Management of Banded Vegetation Patterns in Niger », CASYS [Online], 1 | 1998, Online since 28 June 2024, connection on 19 September 2024. URL : http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=619

Author

Jean M. Thiéry

CEA/Cadarache, DSV-DEVM, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

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