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

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dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Flurina
dc.contributor.authorRist, Stephan
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-08T19:41:21Z
dc.date.available2025-01-08T19:41:21Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractCompeting 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.
dc.description.numberOfPages19
dc.description.sponsorshipGeographisches Institut, Physische Geographie
dc.description.sponsorshipNCCR North-South Management Centre
dc.identifier.doi10.7892/boris.49819
dc.identifier.publisherDOI10.1007/s11625-013-0232-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/197118
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofSustainability science
dc.relation.issn1862-4065
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dc.relation.organizationDCD5A442C3D8E17DE0405C82790C4DE2
dc.relation.projectApproaching water stress in the Alps
dc.subjectSocio-economic scenarios
dc.subjectVisions of the future
dc.subjectWater use
dc.subjectWater governance
dc.subjectParticipatory
dc.subjectTransdisciplinary
dc.subject.ddc300 - Social sciences, sociology & anthropology::330 - Economics
dc.subject.ddc900 - History::910 - Geography & travel
dc.titleEnvisioning sustainable water futures in a transdisciplinary learning process: combining normative, explorative, and participatory scenario approaches
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oairecerif.author.affiliationGeographisches Institut, Physische Geographie
oairecerif.author.affiliationNCCR North-South Management Centre
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oairecerif.author.affiliation2Geographisches Institut, Integrative Geographie
oairecerif.author.affiliation3Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
oairecerif.author.affiliation3Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
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