Socio-economic methods in natural resources research

The format of this NRP is unconventional: it synthesises a number of review papers prepared for a UK Overseas Development Administration (ODA) workshop on Socio-Economics Methods for Natural Resources Research. The ODA s Renewable Natural Resources Strategy (RNRRS) manages natural science research across eleven discipline-based programmes. Most are contracted out to external managers, but the Natural Resources Systems Programme (NRSP) is managed within ODA. The Socio-Economics Methodology (SEM) component of the NRSP is responsible for commissioning work on the development of novel research methods in the social sciences with specific relevance to natural resource management. It commissioned ODI to host the workshop on 29 30 April 1996, which aimed to review the range and recent applications of socio-economic methods currently available to natural resources research managers. A cross-section of natural and social scientists were invited to participate in the presentations and discussions, to examine the fit between the socio-economic methods that are currently available and those that are needed by natural scientists, and to identify priorities for the further development and adaptation of social science research for natural resources management.