Navigating community engagement in participatory modeling of food systems

Wentworth, Chelsea; Arroyo, Mariana Torres; Lembi, Rafael Cavalcanti; Feingold, Beth J.; Freedman, Darcy; Gray, Steven; Hodbod, Jennifer; Jablonski, Becca B.R.; Janda-Thomte, Kathryn M.; Lemoine, Pablo; Nielsen, Aida; Romeiko, Xiaobo Xue; Salvo, Deborah; Olabisi, Laura Schmitt; van den Berg, Alexandra E.; Yamoah, Owusua

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103645

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“…In the first project, previous work had been conducted to explore values that describe a desirable vision for the future or urban agriculture in the city of Lansing; a resilience assessment that developed a timeline with key events that shaped the system, including the effects of the COVID-19; a study on inclusion of refugees and immigrants in urban gardens (Hodbod et al 2019;Piso et al 2019;Kirby et al 2020;Goralnik et al 2022;Hodbod et al 2024). Regarding the second project in Flint, previous research identified shared values for the future of the food system (Belisle-Toler, Hodbod and Wentworth 2021); a resilience assessment that depicted shocks, responses and cross-scale interactions influencing the urban food system (Hodbod and Wentworth 2021;Wentworth, Hodbod and Gerard 2022a); strategies to navigate community-engaged research (Schmitt Olabisi et al 2022;Wentworth et al 2024); and a series of leverage points (as per Meadows 1999), or points of intervention within the system where relatively small interventions yield systemic change (FLPP 2023). Building upon these previous efforts and partnerships, we applied the "Recipe for a Scenario" tool and workbook to present key findings from previous research and then build actionable pathways towards a desirable future in 20 years (2042).…”

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Recipe for a scenario: Moving from vision to actionable pathways towards sustainable futures

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Hodbod

2024

Progress in Environmental Geography

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In this paper we present an overview of future-oriented research in sustainability science and place-based research and offer a tool for researchers and community partners to use to guide participatory scenario planning activities that result in actionable steps toward achieving sustainable futures. Within place-based community-engaged research projects, future-oriented methods, such as visioning and participatory scenario planning, have been increasingly utilized as an approach to integrate diverse voices and foster positive change. However, this emerging literature contains some overlapping concepts and approaches that require clarification before adoption. We review common definitions of scenarios, visions, and participatory scenario planning; benefits and challenges of conducting a participatory scenario planning process in place-based research; and three actionable frameworks (Three Horizons, Nature Futures Framework, Sustainable Futures Scenarios) that can inform participatory scenario planning. We then highlight gaps in the literature regarding how to conduct a participatory scenario planning process and introduce a tool named “Recipe for a Scenario” to guide the facilitation of scenarios workshops and co-create actionable pathways towards desirable futures. Our tool (and accompanying workbook that structures a scenarios workshop) supports cross-disciplinary community-engaged projects focused on bringing about positive change in a medium-term timeframe (approximately 20 years) to support more sustainable human-environment dynamics.

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