Sustaining Environmental Governance: An assessment of Participatory Planning Tools, Processes and Impacts in Rural Landscapes

Project Status: Completed
Type of Project: Networking Award
Principal Investigator: Dr Anna Lawrence, Oxford University (Email)

 

Objectives

This award will prepare a full proposal that assesses the usefulness and impact of participatory rural planning processes, with a specific focus on the role of visualisation tools, to enhance rural governance.

It will do this by addressing research questions which include:
• Which participatory tools enable stakeholders to arrive at consensus and why?
• Specifically, how effective are existing and new planning and management tools?
• Are decisions reached by participatory methods more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable than top-down decisions, and why?
• How can these outcomes be perceived, measured and communicated?