BACKGROUND The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Prevention Research Centers (PRC) Program underwent a 2-year evaluation planning project using a participatory process that allowed perspectives from the national community of PRC partners to be expressed and reflected in a national logic model. CONTEXT The PRC Program recognized the challenge in developing a feasible, useabl...

This paper considers participatory modelling to integrate biodiversity conservation into land use planning and to facilitate the incorporation of ecological knowledge into public decision making for spatial planning. Réunion Island has experienced rapid urban and agricultural expansion, which threaten its unique biodiversity. In this context, we designed three participatory modelling sequences,...

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...

In order to enhance a constructive approach to technological and organisational development it seems important to involve employees proactively. This implies the need for a changing role of employee representatives, trade unions and management. It can, however, be observed that many systems of representative participation are reactively rather than proactively oriented. A proactive approach req...

This contribution to Science & Society's special issue on socialist economic organisation brings together the basic model proposed in Devine (1988) and subsequent work developing and elaborating that model (Adaman and Devine 1994, 1996, 1997, mimeo; Devine 1992, 1997, forthcoming). It is part of a project which is designed to assist in the revival of the movement for socialism by developing a w...

Participatory practices are both necessary and demanded in contemporary domains of politics, governance policy making. Participation acts as a corrective to or redirection the power dynamics...

The participants of non-industrial private forest (NIPF) planning typically include the forest owner and the planning consultant. The computer interface of the forest planning software may also be seen as a participant that quickly answers computational questions related to the production of the forest. When additional human participants are involved the process may be called participatory plan...

Research strategies which emphasize participation are increasingly used in health research. Breaking the linear mould of conventional research, participatory research focuses on a process of sequential reflection and action, carried out with and by local people rather than on them. Local knowledge and perspectives are not only acknowledged but form the basis for research and planning. Many of t...

The aim of the article is to present and discuss the potentials of community informatics for participatory planning and design, as well as for ICT-mediated participation in general. The article is based on a case study of the co-design of a shared yard in Helsinki. The application of ICTs meant that tools such as the local website and the Urban Mediator were used as platforms and media to co-cr...