Model Design Workshop, 23 January to 3 February 1999

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Model Design Workshop, 23 January to 3 February 1999

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FLORES Model Design Workshop, 23 January to 3 February 1999

CIFOR, in partnership with CIRAD and the University of Edinburgh,
invites expressions of interest from researchers who wish to participate in
a workshop to help design and implement FLORES, the Forest Land Oriented
Resource Envisioning System. FLORES will help explore the consequences at
the landscape scale, of policies and other initiatives intended to influence
land use in developing countries in the tropics. It should provide an
accessible platform to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between
researchers and facilitate empirical tests of hypotheses and other
propositions. It will be implemented in AME, a compartment-flow modelling
environment available freely from the University of Edinburgh.

The workshop will be held in Indonesia during 23 January to 3
February 1999. Participants will collaborate to design, construct and test
several components of the system following the participatory approach
pioneered by Buzz Holling. In this workshop, the emphasis will be on
capturing the interactions between human decision-making - modelled at the
level of the individual household - and the surrounding land, modelled at a
level approaching that of an individual field. A field trip will form an
integral part of the workshop. Further details about FLORES and the workshop
can be found at
http://www.cgiar.org/cifor

Researchers wishing to be involved in the workshop should submit an
application to Jerry Vanclay at the address below, indicating their research
interests and experience. Applicants should explain their interest in land
use systems in developing countries and their modelling experience. We want
a broad range of views represented at the workshop, and applications from
all disciplines and geographic regions will be considered. However, the
number of places available is very limited. Financial assistance may be
available to suitably qualified candidates. Applications should be received
at the address below by 10 October.

Jerry Vanclay
Center for International Forestry Research
PO Box 6596 JKPWB, Jakarta 10065, Indonesia
Tel +62 251 622 622, Fax +62 251 622 100
From: Jerry Vanclay <J.VANCLAY@CGIAR.ORG>
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