SITE-Sulawesi
The main objective of SITE-Sulawesi is to study land use in a highly dynamic tropical landscape, focussing on socio-economic and environmental effects of different strategies of resource use.
SITE-Sulawesi is developed in the context of STORMA, a multidisciplinary research project, located in Central Sulawesi – Indonesia and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) until 2008.
The simulations incorporate many of the socio-economic and natural science aspects of the various subprojects of STORMA into a single modelling framework. Other objectives are: to provide new insights into the current landuse-biophysical system in the forest margin, and to serve as a tool for scenario analysis of strategies to enhance socio-economic and environmental stability in the forest margin area.
Contact:
PI: Joerg Priess;
project scientists: Matthias Mimler (until 2007); Christian Schweitzer (since 2007)
Scientific assistant: Michel Helms
Funding
German Research Foundation (DFG) until 2008