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The Strategic Choice Approach in Sustainable Sanitation Planning

Jaan-Henrik KainChalmers Architecture

The Strategic Choice Approachin Sustainable Sanitation Planning

Planning as strategic choice

The Strategic Choice Approach

The Strategic Choice Approachin Swedish research on urban water

Strengths of the Strategic Choice Approach

The Strategic Choice Approach in Ghana?




Planning as a process of strategic choice




From Friend and Hickling (2005)




- Numerous planning instruments





- Different decision-makers







- Pressures…







- Pressures…

- Uncertainties…







- Pressures…

- Uncertainties…

- Planning as a multi-stakeholder process








- Pressures…

- Uncertainties…

- Planning as a multi-stakeholder process

- Planning as strategic choice to make progress





After Friend and Hickling (2005)



Shaping decision areas:

– What are the problems?

– How are they interlinked?

– What is the focus?





Designing alternatives:

– What are the options?

– How may they be linked

into alternative solutions?





Comparing alternatives:

– What are the evaluation

areas?

– What are the pros and cons

of the alternatives?

– Is there a best alternative?





Choosing alternatives:

– What alternative is chosen?

– Who will take action?

– What are the remaining

uncertainties?

– What to do about them?







Participation:

– Who are the stakeholders?

– Who should/will participate?

– Why should they participate?





Participation:

– Who are the stakeholders?

– Who should/will participate?

– Why should they participate?

Worldviews:

– What are our aspirations?

– What are our different aims?

– How is our common future?




in Swedish research projects





Planning of waste water management

in a smaller peri-urban area of the City of Södertälje

- with focus on user participation in the planning process





Tentative planning of future

urban water and organic waste management systems

in the City of Uppsala

- participation by higher officials





Evaluation of different approaches to future urban water

and organic waste management in the City of Gothenburg

- evaluation by politicians -> decision-making





Evaluation of different alternatives for future

drinkig water provision in the City of Södertälje

- evaluation by officials and consultants -> decision-making





Shaping of organisation and focus of a Climate Change Council

in the City of Malmö for mitigation of and adaptation to

effects of climate change (ongoing project)

- participation by officials from different bodies




- Opening up decision areas to avoid sub-optimization,

based on taken-for-granteds or too narrow worldviews




- Opening up decision areas to avoid sub-optimization

- Facilitation of multi-criteria evaluations,

both through graphics





- Facilitation of multi-criteria evaluations,

both through graphics and software





- Facilitation of multi-criteria evaluations

- Management of uncertainties,

of different kinds






- Management of uncertainties,

of different kinds and importance






- Management of uncertainties

- Building of commitment,

over time and uncertainty




in Ghana?

Peri-urban water and sanitation in Accra, Ghana - relevance

and adaptability of contemporary Swedish approaches

(ongoing project)

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