All the projects in the research unit have been organised into three broad areas, made up of complementary activities. The resulting projects contribute to one or more of these different activities:

Supporting management processes:

• Support organizations in dynamic and unstable environments;
• Understand modes of management and learning;
• Study the appropriation and use renewable resources;
• Train, teach and facilitate communication on the joint management of renewable resources.

Modelling the interactions between society and the environment:

• Model and simulate social and ecological dynamics at different scales and levels of organization using different approaches, methodologies and tools;
• Collect, represent and organize biophysical data and knowledge;
• Collect, represent and organize data and knowledge of stakeholder's practises and social relations;
• Teach, train and communicate information about the models of the interaction between ecological and social dynamics.

Developing tools adapted to modelling complex systems;

• Develop computer modelling and simulation platforms;
• Develop role play exercises (computer-aided or other);
• Formalize complex systems;
• Develop generic methods for analyzing management processes;
• Evaluate the use of methods and tools;
• Train and communicate information about the use of modelling tools for complex systems.

Current projects

• IMAS (ANR): Impact of the Methods of Access to Seeds on the diversity of genetic resources in agriculture
• Service Environnementaux et usage de l'espace rural (SERENA)
• QUINOA
• Sub-basin management and governance of rainwater and small reservoirs (CPWF Volta)
• COservation et de GEStion des écosystèmes FORestiers malgaches (COGESFOR - SAHAN'ALA)
• Functional Diversity: An ecological framework for sustainable and adaptable agro-forestry systems in landscapes of semi-arid and arid ecoregions. FUNCiTree

Ended projects

• Multi-agent modelling of seed trade networks to improve in situ conservation of local cereal varieties in West Africa
• Multi-agents, social sciences and integrated natural resource management in South Asia (Asia IT&C)
• ECHEL-EAU (MAE): Integrated water resource management tools-application to the Limpopo, Mekong and Niger River Basins
• ADD ComMod
• AVITER (ANR): Poultry subsectors in France and Brazil - impacts on the sustainable development of production areas and territories.
• AMAZ-ES (ANR): Ecosystem services for Amazonian agrosilvopastoral landscapes: analysis of key socioeconomic factors and scenario simulations
• EQUECO (ANR): Emergence of quinoa on the world trade market - effects on social and agricultural sustainability in the Bolivian Altiplano region
• ATP Domino
• AquaStress: Reducing tension by using water, using new approaches taking into account technical, institutional and management aspects
• ANDYCOT (ANR): Analysis of conflict dynamics in French overseas
• AUF analysis guide
• FOREIAIM (E.U): Forest restauration in East Africa and Madagascar
• BRG: Ethnological approach to conservation ex situ in Brazil and in Chili
• Production of a digital training module "new participative approaches for the management of natural resources"
• Desert Margin Program (DMP): Phase 2
• ClimBioRisk (Languedoc Roussillon area)
• CPWF: Challenge Programm for Water and Food
• Multiagent systems for modeling and simulation of complex systems
• Recherche fédérative plateforme modélisation
• Théories Socio-Ecologiques et Recherche Empirique (SETER)
• METISSE
• Contribution de l'élevage à la réduction de la vulnérabilité des ruraux et à leur adaptabilité aux changements climatiques et sociétaux en Afrique de l'Ouest au sud du Sahara (ECLIS)
• Support of integrated coast management (AGIL)
• Economic incentives for biodiversity conservation (BioEcon)
• Assessing and maping erosion on Mayotte
• COMMOD/CU: Collective apprenticeship of integrated renewable resource management in Southeast Asia:Companion modelling for resilient ecological and social systems
• Asia IT & C
• Training in Multi Agents Systems, Social Sciences and Integrated Natural Resources Management
• Instruments and methods for the sustainable introduction of decentralized water management bodies in South Africa (Water Boards), phase 1
• Biodiversity and renewable resource management in the Amazon (Biodam)
• Desert Margin Programme (DMP):Phase 1
• A decision support and general support tool for development projects aimed at forest fire prevention, based on multi-agent systems
• Pilot operation: Land occupation and use mapping (POAS)
• Emergence, evolution and simulation of epidemiological models in human populations:the case of the plague in Madagascar
• Public policy and landscape dynamics in the southern Massif Central
• FLOAGRI: Integrated systems for participative forest and agricultural resource management by rural people in the Amazon
• Tools and methodologies for the sustainable establishment of decentralized water management institutions in South Africa (Water Agencies), phase 2
• Stepping up adaptative research under a pilot operation for decentralized resource management on the left bank of the Senegal River
• A stakeholder driven process to develop a catchment management plan for the Kat River valley
• Clean development mechanism and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon
• Mediation to promote land ownership security on Reunion
• NSF: The dynamics of rules for management of shared resources
• Management of pastoralism on the fringes of highly protected natural environments
• Transamazonia
• Interreg land security and landuse planning
• Strategic Monitoring of South American Transformations (SMART)
• Quantitative Ecology ACI (concerted action incentive) "Multi-agent systems and simulation of multi-use land management scenarios"