Editorial Participatory Approaches to Modelling for Improved Learning and Decision-making in Natural Resource Governance: an Editorial

摘要

Participatory processes play an increasingly significant role in natural resource governance (Rauschmayer et al., 2009; Dietz and Stern, 2008; Stoll-Kleemann and Welp, 2006). Given such typical challenges as high levels of uncertainty about resources and their use, deep conflicts among stakeholders or serious deficits in rule implementation, the development of innovative ways of including stakeholders in managing resources such as fish stocks, forests or river basins continues to be an important field of research. Closer attention has been paid in the past decade in Europe and across the world to ways of opening up the field of modelling to stakeholder involvement (Hare et al., 2003; Ritzema et al., 2010; and Webler et ah). For a long time, this field had been considered an exclusive domain of 'experts' in formal representations of natural resources and their utilization.