Overcoming multi-stakeholder fragmented narratives in land use, woodland and forestry policy: The role scenario planning and ‘dissociative jolts’

2021 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 120663
Author(s):  
George Burt ◽  
David Mackay ◽  
Kepa Mendibil
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Forestry Policy ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

scholarly journals Toward Inclusive Landscape Governance in Contested Landscapes: Exploring the Contribution of Participatory Tools in the Upper Suriname River Basin

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Best ◽  
Kimberley Fung-Loy ◽  
Nafiesa Ilahibaks ◽  
Sara O. I. Ramirez-Gomez ◽  
Erika N. Speelman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Landscape Governance ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Trade Offs

AbstractNowadays, tropical forest landscapes are commonly characterized by a multitude of interacting institutions and actors with competing land-use interests. In these settings, indigenous and tribal communities are often marginalized in landscape-level decision making. Inclusive landscape governance inherently integrates diverse knowledge systems, including those of indigenous and tribal communities. Increasingly, geo-information tools are recognized as appropriate tools to integrate diverse interests and legitimize the voices, values, and knowledge of indigenous and tribal communities in landscape governance. In this paper, we present the contribution of the integrated application of three participatory geo-information tools to inclusive landscape governance in the Upper Suriname River Basin in Suriname: (i) Participatory 3-Dimensional Modelling, (ii) the Trade-off! game, and (iii) participatory scenario planning. The participatory 3-dimensional modelling enabled easy participation of community members, documentation of traditional, tacit knowledge and social learning. The Trade-off! game stimulated capacity building and understanding of land-use trade-offs. The participatory scenario planning exercise helped landscape actors to reflect on their own and others’ desired futures while building consensus. Our results emphasize the importance of systematically considering tool attributes and key factors, such as facilitation, for participatory geo-information tools to be optimally used and fit with local contexts. The results also show how combining the tools helped to build momentum and led to diverse yet complementary insights, thereby demonstrating the benefits of integrating multiple tools to address inclusive landscape governance issues.

Recreation values of forests and parks

1975 ◽  
Vol 271 (911) ◽  
pp. 179-198 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Consumer Surplus ◽  
Western World ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Recreation Planning ◽  
Forestry Policy ◽  
Forested Areas

Economic and social changes in the western world increase the need for multiple land use. Recreation in forested areas is therefore an important issue, as well from the point of forestry policy as of forestry planning. This is illustrated with some examples from the Netherlands. Recreation planning is surveyed in three successive steps (determination of the location, of the capacity and of the layout) with the aid of some schemes and examples. With regard to the economic evaluation of future recreation values mention is made of the use of the consumer-surplus method. Finally some pointers are given on forestry policy in connexion with physical planning and, in this context, the obtaining of data for recreation research.

How Urban Agriculture is Reshaping Peri-Urban Beijing?

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Feifei ◽  
Cai Jianming ◽  
Liu Gang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

In Beijing, urban agriculture (UA) experienced a corkscrew development with its role changing in decades: It has evolved from the purely production mode to multi-functional urban agriculture, fulfilling both social and ecological demands. At present, the practice of UA as well as the number of rural to urban migrants is growing rapidly in peri-urban Beijing. Through Multi-stakeholder Process for Action planning and Policy Design (MPAP) methodology and four in-depth case studies, we can see that UA activities are playing very important roles in reshaping peri-urban Beijing. Socially, UA induces the emergence of new migrant communities. While migrants rebuild their social network, they are changed by the city as well, which has also changed the local community. The new comers are on their way to creating a new balance. Physically, urban and peri-urban farmland limits urban sprawl, supplies agricultural products for everyday life, and reserves urban green spaces for recreation and leisure for citizens in Beijing, which has changed the landscape and land use and land cover (LUCC) pattern greatly. Under Beijing's land policy, the concentric configuration spatial allocation through multi-functional UA is formed, which at the same time due to migrants' UA activities are creating harmful and low efficient land use pattern which should be of concern.

Spatial dynamic modelling for urban scenario planning: A case study of Nanjing, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 1380-1396
Author(s):  
Zipan Cai ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Cong Cong ◽  
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Dynamic Modelling ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Integrated Modelling ◽  
Spatial Dynamic ◽  
Modelling Method ◽  
Urban Scenario

Although urban scenario planning is widely applied for exploring various directions of urban development, it often has high requirements on the medium of quantitative information analysis and transformation. Thus, this study establishes a method of combining scenario planning with a spatial dynamic planning support system to predict urban growth. Specifically, a scenario-based spatial dynamic modelling method is integrated with the information module of planning policy for better decision support. The integrated modelling method is applied for an actual urban land use planning case of Nanjing, an evolving city in China. The spatial forms of future urban land use are simulated under four different pre-set policy scenarios. The differences in simulated results under multi-criteria restrictions reveal the effectiveness and practical value of the integration approach. The findings of this study provide policymakers with a process-based approach to test and evaluate ‘what-if’ consequences and help stakeholders reach consensus.

Engaging Regional Stakeholders in Scenario Planning for the Long-Term Preservation of Ecosystem Services in Northwestern Virginia

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iara Lacher ◽  
Thomas Akre ◽  
William J. McShea ◽  
Marissa McBride ◽  
Jonathan R. Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Scenario Planning ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Shenandoah Valley ◽  
The Future

This case study describes the application of a framework for developing stakeholder-driven scenarios of the future. The purpose of these scenarios is to inform land use planning toward the protection of ecosystems and derivable ecosystem services in Northwestern Virginia. We held two scenario development workshops with regional experts in conservation, agriculture, land use planning, policy, and economic development to create scenarios of land use in the northern Piedmont and northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. We structured the workshops around a framework that guided stakeholders through several steps eventually resulting in four unique scenarios describing the region in 50 years. Scenario narratives were defined by the intersection of highly influential and uncertain drivers of change relevant to land use planning and ecosystem services. Participants from the northern Shenandoah Valley region selected population growth and climate change adaptation as their scenario defining drivers, while participants from the northern Piedmont region selected planning strategy and climate change impact as their scenario defining drivers. Participants fleshed out scenarios into descriptive narratives that incorporated qualitative and quantitative measures of change. Details from the scenario narratives informed land use change models to further quantify tradeoffs between land use planning decisions and ecosystem services. Individuals interested in using scenario planning to guide research efforts, conservation, or land use planning, or even to broaden perspectives on how to view the future, will find value in this case study.

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