Stepping into futures: Exploring the potential of interactive media for participatory scenarios on social-ecological systems

Vervoort, Joost; Kok, Kasper; Lammeren, R.J.A. van; Veldkamp, A.

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2010.04.031

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“…This is being achieved through tools like real-time social media data analysis to monitor and predict energy usage, social media supported shift-and-save models, and energy-use mobile apps (see for example Sheppard, 2011) To stimulate future growth in this area, it will become increasingly important for those shaping policy and energy engagement campaigns to consider energy and communications networks as linked and dialogic systems, with linked and dialogic ends. Deep systems integration will require, to varying and increasing degrees, systems comprehension on the part of consumers as well as network operators (Vervoort et al, 2010). Likewise, facilitating productive dialogue among stakeholders is a key component of achieving larger sustainable energy goals, a point which has become more actively reflected in critiques of planning and environmental policy in recent years (Evans-Cowley & Hollander, 2010; Bickerstaffe, 2013).…”

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Future energy networks and the role of interactive gaming as simulation

Barrios-O'Neill

Hook

2016

Futures

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Future energy networks and the role of interactive gaming as simulation

Barrios-O'Neill

Hook

2016

Futures

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“…Firstly, interactive and visually attractive computer-based tools are engaging and may stimulate participants to imagine the future in a creative, vivid and detailed manner. The technique brings out also implicit ideas, supports structuring them and reveals inconsistencies and gaps (Vervoort et al 2010;Bhowmick 2006). The tools can support discussion between participants by diminishing language barriers, sharing of results and function as external memory during the 2-day sessions.…”

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“…Using participatory approaches involving sufficiently large groups of stakeholders, and adequate time for the elicitation process and for review and outreach, can enhance credibility, legitimacy and saliency and thereby promote their uptake in land-use policies and strategies (Swart et al 2004). In addition, innovative participatory techniques and computer-based tools can help to stimulate the imagination and enhance stakeholders' engagement (Appleton and Lovett 2003;Vervoort et al 2010;Wang et al 2016). Imagining a distant future is a difficult exercise for human beings (Bryant and Veroff 2007), because the brain recombines past experience information to imagine the future (Grant and Suddendorf 2005).…”

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Sketching sustainable land use in Europe by 2040: a multi-stakeholder participatory approach to elicit cross-sectoral visions

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The continuously growing global demands on a finite land resource will require better strategic policies and management of trade-offs to avoid conflicts between different land-use sectors. Visions of the future can support strategic planning by stimulating dialogue, building a consensus on shared priorities and providing long-term targets. We present a novel approach to elicit stakeholder visions of future desired land use, which was applied with a broad range of experts to develop cross-sectoral visions in Europe. The approach is based on (i) combination of software tools and facilitation techniques to stimulate engagement and creativity; (ii) methodical selection of stakeholders; (iii) use of land attributes to deconstruct the multifaceted sectoral visions into land-use changes that can be clustered into few cross-sectoral visions, and (iv) a rigorous iterative process. Three cross-sectoral visions of sustainable land use in Europe in 2040 emerged from applying the approach in participatory workshops involving experts in nature conservation, recreation, agriculture, forestry, settlements, energy, and water. The three visions-Best Land in Europe, Regional Connected and Local Multifunctional-shared a wish to achieve a land use that is sustainable through multifunctionality, resource use efficiency, controlled urban growth, rural renewal and widespread nature. However, they differ on the scale at which land services are provided-EU-wide, regional or local-reflecting the land-sparing versus land-sharing debate. We discuss the usefulness of the approach, as well as the challenges posed and solutions offered by the visions to support strategic land-use planning.

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“…Participants selected 20 years (2032) as a temporal reference point because it is approximately a generation, and bison have been on the landscape for about that amount of time. Visually representing themes and local conditions enhances people's ability to visualize different futures, allowing people to more readily think about the implications of a given scenario (Ralston and Wilson 2006, Vervoort et al 2010, Sheppard et al 2011. Consequently, we hired a Yukon-based graphic artist to create a set of four computergenerated images (one for each scenario), each representing main themes and important drivers (Fig.…”

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Scenario planning during rapid ecological change: lessons and perspectives from workshops with southwest Yukon wildlife managers

Beach¹,

Clark²

2015

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ABSTRACT. Scenario planning has been increasingly advocated as a strategic planning tool for enabling natural resource managers to make decisions in the face of uncertainty and rapid change. However, few examples exist that discuss the technique's application in that field. We used a scenario planning approach to develop wildlife management goals and evaluated participants' perceptions of scenario planning as a goal development tool. Study participants emphasized the context-specificity of management goals, and that "no-regrets" management strategies might not be constructive. We found that scenario planning can help resource managers identify needs that have been overlooked but may become important in the future. Scenarios can likely be used to develop management goals for other resources within the same system. Scenario planning provides a way to apply traditional ecological knowledge and local knowledge in a planning process in a respectful manner. Further process-oriented findings may be helpful to practitioners or researchers considering this approach: workshops should to be temporally close together for participants to retain context during the process, and ensuring continuity of workshop participants is important. Study participants judged scenario planning to be an effective tool to stimulate group-thought on longer time scales, facilitate adaptive learning, and enhance institutional linkages. Ultimately such outcomes can help groups comprising diverse participants to develop shared mental models of the future and identify pathways to achieve them.

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Stepping into futures: Exploring the potential of interactive media for participatory scenarios on social-ecological systems

Cited by 66 publications

References 50 publications

Future energy networks and the role of interactive gaming as simulation

Future energy networks and the role of interactive gaming as simulation

Sketching sustainable land use in Europe by 2040: a multi-stakeholder participatory approach to elicit cross-sectoral visions

Scenario planning during rapid ecological change: lessons and perspectives from workshops with southwest Yukon wildlife managers

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