Week 6 – using narratives to choose ways to engage with environmental problems
Overview
1. We have used 5 approaches to study environmental problems
2. We need to capture the information from all those methods
3. We’d like to get information from other stakeholders and experts
4. We can analyze these for knowledge, control and values and choose mode of engagement
5. Example – KCV leads to scenarios as major step
6. Conclusions
1. Review the approaches
Patterns
Stock and Flow Systems
Network
Risk and Uncertainty
Games
2. Examples of different information
Stock and Flow vs. Network for a food web Mass balance
Resilience
Patterns vs. Stock and Flow Pattern of unlimited population growth
Positive feedback
Games vs. Uncertainty Game against nature
Sources of uncertainty
Narratives
Simply – the story or stories
Could be: Verbal or written Drawings Map – historical or placement of important resources Models – such as stock and flow videos
Capture all the information possible
Don’t start from the answer
3. Process to capture multiple perspectives and local experts
4. Problem types and strategies
Problem typology
Value alignment
Value conflict
Information available
Simple (Regulations)
CPR (Institutions)
Information lacking
Information (Research)
Wicked (Entrepre-neurial)
Management strategies
High control Low control
Sufficient knowledge
Optimal project management
Hedging/diversification
Uncertainty Scientific Adaptive Managment
Scenarios
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of engagement
L L L Scenarios and expanded narratives L L H
L H L Environmental Entrepreneurism
L H H Scientific Adaptive Manage
H L L Multi-criteria
H L H Hedging/Diversification
H H L CPR - institutions
H H H Optimal Project Management
Knowledge:Control:Value
5. Building scenarios: Assumptions
Lake restoration will involve the entire community
Building trust will take deliberate effort
What will the lake and the region look like? Modernity Post-modernity Second modernity (Gross) Retro-modernity
Went through an analysis of what conditions and values each of these worldviews think will be in their future
Considering values mismatches in looking for approaches
Range of worldviews means that there will be values mismatches Example: Individualists will favor population growth whereas
Deep Ecologists will favor zero population growth
Not our job to solve these debates
Can include disparate values as a factor in choosing how to address environmental problems
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6. Conclusions
The multiple perspectives provide us with a range of different types of information.
We can use the information to choose how to engage with solving the problem.
This will entail understanding Knowledge/uncertainty
Control and scale
Values mismatches
Range of options becomes focused