The SEOSAW partnership2021-06-222021-06-222020-10-05http://hdl.handle.net/10625/60303Findings from the Socio-Ecological Observatory for the Southern African Woodlands (SEOSAW) will underpin the sustainability of two of the largest industries on the continent: wood fuels and timber. The article describes a new network of researchers’ (SEOSAW) work in long-term, in situ, measurements that will characterize the changing socio-ecology of the woodlands of southern Africa. These woodlands encompass the largest savanna in the world, hugely important to rural and urban livelihoods, but chronically under-studied. A new development is the use of data from permanent sample plots (PSP) in Bayesian model-data fusion analyses of ecosystem carbon cycles. The article includes an extensive bibliography.application/pdfenWOODFORESTSFOREST MANAGEMENTFUELWOODTIMBERRURAL ECONOMYSAVANNASSOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMSECOSYSTEMSSOUTH OF SAHARAJournal Article (peer-reviewed)