Participatory scenario planning to facilitate human–wildlife coexistence

Introduction to Scenario Planning

The use of participatory modeling to promote social learning and facilitate community disaster planning

Coastal island communities face significant risks associated with increased natural hazards and other impacts associated with climate change. Further, deeply rooted social issues, lack of awareness or information, and inadequate infrastructure and planning may exacerbate risks to island socio-ecological systems. Understanding these relationships is often difficult, given the lack of methods ava...

Using Participatory Scenario Planning to Identify Ecosystem Services in Changing Landscapes

There is a growing interest in assessing ecosystem services to improve ecosystem management in landscapes containing a mix of different ecosystems. While methodologies for assessing ecosystem services are constantly improving, only little attention has been given to the identification of which ecosystem services to assess. Service selection is mostly based on current state of the landscape alth...

Getting to the Point with Participatory Video Scenario

Participatory video scenarios can be used to facilitate user participation in the development of collaborative information systems. At the same time these scenarios promote the empathic understanding of the users. When scenario design is based on a contextual study of the users' work, the scenarios can be focused on the issues that are most challenging from the users' point of view. The number ...

Scenario planning as communicative action: Lessons from participatory exercises conducted for the Scottish livestock industry

Article history: Received 14 April 2015 Received in revised form 26 May 2016 Accepted 22 July 2016 Available online 11 August 2016 Based on Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action, this paper critiques the transparency and legitimacy of participatory scenario planning, considering a case study of scenario development for the livestock industry within Scotland. The paper considers the extent to...