Summary
The Resources or Ecosystem Services/Uses/Governance (RUG) view of the system is an operational approach, based on system thinking, social-ecological systems, stemming from different operational management approaches (including DPSIR, ARDI), aiming at:
- Integrated modelling: representing ecological, economic and social processes in an integrated way, considering objects which are already social-ecological sub-systems
- Integrated assessment: each category of objects within the system deserve its own assessment criteria or framework (state variable for R(ES), objective functions for uses and governance)
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Date: 2012-2015
The work presented here has been developed in six case studies of the VALMER Interreg 4A Channel project (2012-2015).
Coordination by M. Philippe, J. Ballé-Béganton and D. Bailly,
based on written contributions from N. Smith, P. Hoskin, W. Dodds, T. Hooper, L. Friedrich, N. Beaumont and C. Grifths