Sectorial policies P1 No special policies are developed.
Scenarios that presented conflicting outcomes of special policies and sectorial policies were removed: if the special policies move towards sustainability, sectorial policies will probably also be implemented (and vice versa).
In fact, the 2010 demand of forest land is already one-third of the total forest cover; sectorial policies to avoid further deforestation are therefore an absolute priority.
P2 Sectorial policies are developed to provide replacement for ecosystem services: wood plantations and support for development for better farming methods.
Figure 9 demonstrates how sectorial policies can influence heavily the impact on ecosystems: Eating Broth with a Fork has the highest population growth, but the demand for forest products is lower than Far West and Full Steam Ahead because it ensures that sectorial policies include enough wood plantation to meet the rural demand for firewood and charcoal.
The policy design tool augments management tasks by integrating recording of natural assets, monitoring of key performance indicators and integration of sectorial policies in real time, bringing out policy as a truly live document.
The aim of this article is to analyze how market actors, and farmers in particular, mobilize collective coordination capacities to face global changes – market price or sectorial policies – within different regional contexts.
For the multicriteria analysis, however, suitability factors were standardized and then weighted according to the outcomes of special policies and sectorial policies considered for Far West (G1P1) and Atlantis (G3P2) (see Table 1).
In particular they have been divided in spatial policies, meaning all the actions that can lead to a spatial development, and sectorial policies, or the political choices that can help finding substitutes for ecosystems services.
Even though the ECOWAS has formulated sectorial policies (e.g. agriculture and industry), it is recently, in 2012, that the Economic Community of West African States Policy on Science and Technology (ECOPOST) was adopted.
