By David Lusseau Are you working on a complex context of
resource use, involving ecological, economic and social
dynamics? Do you want to better understand how this complex
system reacts to changes like increased harvest, higher market
demand, or climate change? We are coming to realise that in
order to sustainably manage the, direct or indirect,
exploitation of natural resources we cannot look at economic and
environmental aspects in isolation. Sustainability is defined by
our ability to maintain an economically viable activity while
preserving the ecological integrity of the natural resources it
uses as well as the socioeconomic welfare of the communities
involved. Isolated management of these socio- economic-
ecological systems leads to societal conflicts that are
difficult to inform in a rational manner. To bridge this gap we
have classically evaluated the economic outputs of services
provided by ‘pristine’ natural resources and altered
macroeconomics models to account for these incomes. However,
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