Participatory environmental assessment in drylands: Introducing a new approach |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Medical Genetics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan;2. Department of Legal Medicine, Shimane University School of Medicine, Shimane, Japan;3. Division of Life Science, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan;1. Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment, PO Box 2345; 3500 GH, Utrecht, The Netherlands;2. Environmental Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands;3. Environmental Governance, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands;4. Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands;1. Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK;2. Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Lusaka, Zambia;3. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway |
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| Abstract: | A recent wave of participatory and ‘integrated local and scientific knowledge’ methodologies have been conceived, trialled and published in an attempt to offer solutions to the challenges of conducting dryland environmental assessment from a socio-ecological perspective. Some of the key ideas and approaches within this literature are synthesized and reviewed here. Three conceptual elements that, in combination, remain largely absent within the dryland assessment literature, are identified: (1) drylands as political, cultural and economic systems, (2) drylands as complex resilient systems, and (3) drylands as temporally-embedded systems. These conceptual elements are then combined in presenting a new methodological approach, which is based on the participatory modelling of ecosystem services and participatory assessment of future scenarios. It is an approach to environmental assessment that is sensitive to the needs and experience of present and future stakeholders and creates potential avenues for co-operative management decisions and socially-acceptable policies. |
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