Toward a land zoning negotiation support platform: “Tips and tricks” for participatory land use planning in Laos

A multiscale gaming approach to understand farmer’s decision making in the boom of maize cultivation in Laos

“…They were spatial (board games) or nonspatial (card games, role playing) and varied in the amount of variables (complicatedness) they represented. In essence, the serious games functioned as boundary objects between respondents and researchers and stimulated focused discussion of concrete land-use situations (Bourgoin et al 2012). …”

From local scenarios to national maps: a participatory framework for envisioning the future of Tanzania

“…One example was the low level of attendance by women, especially within governmental organizations, and in particular at national compared with subnational levels. Women are reported to have limited opportunities in the public sector in Tanzania (Strachan 2015), and tend to be excluded from official land use decision making or planning processes in other developing countries (World Bank 2008, Bourgoin et al 2012). Furthermore, we could not ensure repeat attendance of all stakeholders at both subnational-and national-level workshops (Reed et al 2013).…”

Realization of participation and spatiality in participatory forest management – a policy–practice analysis from Zanzibar, Tanzania

“…Engaging into participatory planning and decision-making, even when supported by an experimental project, builds the community capacity to carry out planning in their villages and strengthens the governmental capacity to act as facilitators of the planning (Nackoney et al 2013). Use of maps, aerial imagery and 3D models with the various stakeholder groups enhances collective learning and the participants' understanding of the environment and its dynamics by seeing them from bird's-eye view (Bourgoin et al 2012;Fagerholm, K€ ayhk€ o and Van Eetvelde 2013;McCall and Minang 2005). When there is time taken to properly familiarize the landscape, such as in the example from Lao PRD, community members are able to express their views and negotiate better the future land and resource management (Bourgoin et al 2012).…”

“…In multifunctional landscapes, PGIS has been found to be a useful approach to mitigate and resolve land use conflicts while making resource management decisions acceptable to a variety of stakeholders (e.g. Bourgoin et al 2012;Kyem 2002;McCall and Minang 2005;Rambaldi 2010). PGIS methods have been used to involve communities in mapping their landscape and land related values supporting community empowerment and advocacy (Fagerholm et al 2012;McCall 2011).…”