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Envisioning sustainable water futures in a transdisciplinary learning process: combining normative, explorative, and participatory scenario approaches

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BORIS DOI
10.7892/boris.49819
Date of Publication
2014
Publication Type
Article
Division/Institute

Geographisches Instit...

NCCR North-South Mana...

Author
Schneider, Flurinaorcid-logo
Geographisches Institut, Physische Geographie
NCCR North-South Management Centre
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
Rist, Stephan
NCCR North-South Management Centre
Geographisches Institut, Integrative Geographie
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
Subject(s)

300 - Social sciences...

900 - History::910 - ...

Series
Sustainability science
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
1862-4065
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Publisher DOI
10.1007/s11625-013-0232-6
Uncontrolled Keywords

Socio-economic scenar...

Visions of the future...

Water use

Water governance

Participatory

Transdisciplinary

Description
Competing water demands for household consumption as well as the production of food, energy, and other uses pose challenges for water supply and sustainable development in many parts of the world. Designing creative strategies and learning processes for sustainable water governance is thus of prime importance. While this need is uncontested, suitable approaches still have to be found. In this article we present and evaluate a conceptual approach to scenario building aimed at transdisciplinary learning for sustainable water governance. The approach combines normative, explorative, and participatory scenario elements. This combination allows for adequate consideration of stakeholders’ and scientists’ systems, target, and transformation knowledge. Application of the approach in the MontanAqua project in the Swiss Alps confirmed its high potential for co-producing new knowledge and establishing a meaningful and deliberative dialogue between all actors involved. The iterative and combined approach ensured that stakeholders’ knowledge was adequately captured, fed into scientific analysis, and brought back to stakeholders in several cycles, thereby facilitating learning and co-production of new knowledge relevant for both stakeholders and scientists. However, the approach also revealed a number of constraints, including the enormous flexibility required of stakeholders and scientists in order for them to truly engage in the co-production of new knowledge. Overall, the study showed that shifts from strategic to communicative action are possible in an environment of mutual trust. This ultimately depends on creating conditions of interaction that place scientists’ and stakeholders’ knowledge on an equal footing.
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https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/197118
Project(s)
Approaching water stress in the Alps
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