Descripción del proyecto
Diversidad y evolución de las normas en los sistemas agrarios
Para adaptar la agricultura al cambio climático es necesario que los sistemas agrarios sean resilientes. La diversidad de normas aplicadas por los agricultores para compartir los recursos naturales de forma sostenible es esencial para mejorar la resiliencia y la adaptación a los cambios mundiales. La gran pregunta es cuánta diversidad existe y cómo está evolucionando. El proyecto RESILIENT RULES, financiado con fondos europeos, se propone encontrar respuestas y acortar la brecha del conocimiento. Para ello, se centrará en sistemas agrícolas pequeños de todo el mundo y explorará si la diversidad institucional y la evolución de las instituciones están mejorando nuestra capacidad de gestionar los recursos naturales de forma sostenible. En particular, evaluará la aportación de la diversidad institucional a la resiliencia a largo plazo ante los cambios mundiales.
Objetivo
Institutional diversity is considered as important as biological diversity for our long-term survival. Broadly defined as the variety of rules, norms, and strategies that societies use to govern shared resources (e.g. grazing land, forests, irrigation waters), it could enhance our ability to sustainably manage them and to cope with new and unexpected disturbances such as climate change. Surprisingly, a global quantification of institutional diversity and a full understanding of the process by which institutions adapt to new conditions are lacking, partly due to the absence of tools for the quantification of institutional diversity. This knowledge gap prevents us from responding to key questions for global sustainability such as: How much institutional diversity is there? How is it globally distributed, how is it evolving? And, more importantly, is institutional diversity and the evolution of institutions increasing our capacity to sustainably manage natural resources in our rapidly changing world? With a focus on small-scale agricultural systems across the world, RESILIENT RULES will apply a novel approach by adapting tools used in life sciences for the study of biological diversity to quantify institutional diversity and respond to the following aims: (1) To study global patterns of institutional diversity and the large-scale association between diversity of agricultural institutions and key environmental and social drivers; (2) To analyse the evolution of agricultural institutions; (3) To assess the contribution of institutional diversity to long-term resilience to global changes. This innovative interdisciplinary study of the spatial and temporal patterns of global institutional diversity is of major societal importance, since it will help understand the role of diversity for resilient governance of resources, create new data on agricultural institutions around the world, and open up new research opportunities in quantitative institutional diversity.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institución de acogida
50009 Zaragoza
España