Participatory urbanism: creative interventions for sustainable development

Participatory Indicator Development for Sustainable Natural Resource Management

There have been few attempts to develop, test or apply sustainability indicators for natural resource management at a farm-level, and even fewer have fully consulted land users from the initiation of this process. While environmental sustainability indicators need to be accurate and reliable, land users also need them to be rapid, cost-effective and easy to use, in addition to being linked to m...

Motivational Crowding in Sustainable Development Interventions

We used a quasi-experimental research design to study the extent of motivational crowding in a recent sustainable development intervention in northern India. The project provided participants with both private and communal material benefits to enhance their incomes, and environmental and social information to inculcate pro-environmental motivations. We compared changes in reported motivations o...

Participatory Design for Sustainable Campus Living

Participatory design methods have the potential to produce ethical and useful persuasive technologies, particularly in support of environmental sustainability. I present the use and results of ethnographically-inspired methods, Cultural Probes, and the Inspiration Card Workshop to generate concepts for new persuasive technologies for use by a college EcoHouse.

Participatory Research in Development of Public Health Interventions

What this report adds: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) engages community members at all phases of research, instilling community ownership of both the process and the product. This report reviews the evidence on CBPR and concludes that there is not yet clear evidence supporting this approach. However, the effectiveness of CBPR may be improved if users recognize its potential advan...

Participatory Evaluation of Development Interventions in a Vulnerable African Environment