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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.
Participatory Modelling To Enhance Social Learning, Collective Action And Mobilization Among Users Of The Mafungautsi Forest, Zimbabwe, Wavell Standa-Gunda, Tendayi Mutimukuru, Richard Nyirenda, Ravi Prabhu, Mandy Haggith, Jerome K. Vanclay
Participatory Modelling To Enhance Social Learning, Collective Action And Mobilization Among Users Of The Mafungautsi Forest, Zimbabwe, Wavell Standa-Gunda, Tendayi Mutimukuru, Richard Nyirenda, Ravi Prabhu, Mandy Haggith, Jerome K. Vanclay
Professor Jerome K Vanclay
Participatory modelling can be a useful process to encourage critical examination of livelihood options and foster sustainable natural resource use through enhanced social learning, collective action and mobilization. The broom-grass group in the Mafungautsi Forest Reserve serves as a case study of the process and outcomes of such participatory modelling. Innovative group facilitation methods enhanced participation in the modelling process. The modelling process complements broader efforts to achieve higher levels of adaptive collaborative management.
Why Model Landscapes At The Level Of Households And Fields?, Jerome K. Vanclay
Why Model Landscapes At The Level Of Households And Fields?, Jerome K. Vanclay
Professor Jerome K Vanclay
Sustainable resource management relies upon many disciplines and deals with complex interactions at the landscape scale. Many of the issues at the landscape scale arise from decisions taken at the household level and affect land use in fields and in small patches of forest. Spatially-explicit modelling of these units is desirable because it enables rigorous testing of model predictions, and thus of underlying propositions. The greatest insights may be obtained by participatory modelling of these processes as we understand them. Despite this, few models simulate dynamics at the household and field level. FLORES, the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System, …