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Participation And Model-Building: Lessons Learned From The Bukittinggi Workshop, Jerome K. Vanclay, Mandy Haggith, Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Participation And Model-Building: Lessons Learned From The Bukittinggi Workshop, Jerome K. Vanclay, Mandy Haggith, Carol J. Pierce Colfer
Professor Jerome K Vanclay
FLORES (the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System) was initially constructed by 50 people during a multidisciplinary workshop in Bukittinggi, Sumatra, in 1999. It proved that a model of a complex system could be constructed in a participatory way by a diverse team; that it could be done with a graphically-based package such as Simile; and that the resulting model could remain reasonably accessible to all participants, and could run on an ordinary notebook computer. Many useful insights can be gained through building such a model, and subsequent experience has demonstrated that modelling in this way can foster continuing interdisciplinary …
Zimflores: A Model To Advise Co-Management Of The Mafungautsi Forest In Zimbabwe, Ravi Prabhu, Mandy Haggith, Happyson Mudavanhu, Robert Muetzelfeldt, Wavell Standa-Gunda, Jerome K. Vanclay
Zimflores: A Model To Advise Co-Management Of The Mafungautsi Forest In Zimbabwe, Ravi Prabhu, Mandy Haggith, Happyson Mudavanhu, Robert Muetzelfeldt, Wavell Standa-Gunda, Jerome K. Vanclay
Professor Jerome K Vanclay
ZimFlores (version 4) is the outcome of a participatory modelling process and seeks to provide a shared factual basis for exploring land-use options for the communal lands surrounding the Mafungautsi forest. The ZimFlores experience underscores the importance of a sharing a common problem and a common location in which all participants have an interest. Participatory modelling has proved an effective way to consolidate a diverse body of knowledge and make it accessible. Results demonstrate the importance of model outputs that are diagnostic, and which offer insights into the issues under consideration.