Scenario planning during rapid ecological change: lessons and perspectives from workshops with southwest Yukon wildlife managers
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 ap...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a3258bc8f9594cfcbbe6198853afb78e 2023-05-15T16:16:51+02:00 Scenario planning during rapid ecological change: lessons and perspectives from workshops with southwest Yukon wildlife managers Dylan M. Beach Douglas A. Clark 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07379-200161 https://doaj.org/article/a3258bc8f9594cfcbbe6198853afb78e EN eng Resilience Alliance http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss1/art61/ https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087 1708-3087 doi:10.5751/ES-07379-200161 https://doaj.org/article/a3258bc8f9594cfcbbe6198853afb78e Ecology and Society, Vol 20, Iss 1, p 61 (2015) Champagne & Aishihik First Nations change participatory qualitative scenario planning social-ecological system (SES) wildlife management Yukon Territory Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07379-200161 2022-12-31T08:01:00Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Yukon Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Aishihik ENVELOPE(-137.512,-137.512,61.598,61.598) Champagne ENVELOPE(-136.483,-136.483,60.788,60.788) Yukon Ecology and Society 20 1 |
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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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Scenario planning during rapid ecological change: lessons and perspectives from workshops with southwest Yukon wildlife managers |
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