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Images to Evoke Decision-Making: Building Compelling Representations for Stakeholder-Driven Futures

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  • Daniel Cronan

    (Landscape Architecture Program, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
    Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA)

  • E. Jamie Trammell

    (Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
    Environmental Science and Policy, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR 97520, USA)

  • Andrew (Anaru) Kliskey

    (Landscape Architecture Program, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
    Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA)

Abstract

Contemporary landscape planning challenges require an increasingly diverse ensemble of voices, including regional stakeholders, physical scientists, social scientists, and technical experts, to provide insight into a landscape’s past trends, current uses, and desired future. To impactfully integrate these disparate components, stakeholder-driven research must include clear lines of communication, share data transparently, and slowly develop trust. Alternative future scenario representations aim to generate conversations through discourse, evoke scenario-based stakeholder input, and ensure stakeholder-based revisions to research models. The current literature lacks a metric for gauging effectiveness and a framework for optimal evaluation for future scenario representations. We have developed and applied a metric for a ranked set of compelling scenario representations using stakeholder input from an active research project. Researchers surveyed stakeholders through a case study in Idaho’s Magic Valley to gauge the effectiveness of each representational approach. To improve future stakeholder-driven geodesign projects and gaps in the research literature, this project provides a ranking of graphic strategies based on the stakeholder survey. Additionally, we provide examples and evaluate graphic representation strategies that can stimulate meaningful conversations, create common understandings, and translate research processes and findings to a variety of audiences. The results of this study intend to provide landscape architects, landscape planners, and geodesign specialists with a framework for evaluating compelling future scenario representations for a stakeholder group.

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  • Daniel Cronan & E. Jamie Trammell & Andrew (Anaru) Kliskey, 2022. "Images to Evoke Decision-Making: Building Compelling Representations for Stakeholder-Driven Futures," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-13, March.
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    1. Derek Walker & Lynda Margaret Bourne & Arthur Shelley, 2008. "Influence, stakeholder mapping and visualization," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(6), pages 645-658.
    2. Daniel Cronan & E. Jamie Trammell & Andrew (Anaru) Kliskey & Paula Williams & Lilian Alessa, 2022. "Socio-Ecological Futures: Embedded Solutions for Stakeholder-Driven Alternative Futures," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-19, March.
    3. E. Jamie Trammell & J. Scott Thomas & Dave Mouat & Quinn Korbulic & Scott Bassett, 2018. "Developing alternative land-use scenarios to facilitate natural resource management across jurisdictional boundaries," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(1), pages 64-85, January.
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    1. Daniel Cronan & E. Jamie Trammell & Andrew Kliskey, 2023. "From Uncertainties to Solutions: A Scenario-Based Framework for an Agriculture Protection Zone in Magic Valley Idaho," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-13, April.
    2. Daniel Cronan & E. Jamie Trammell & Andrew (Anaru) Kliskey & Paula Williams & Lilian Alessa, 2022. "Socio-Ecological Futures: Embedded Solutions for Stakeholder-Driven Alternative Futures," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-19, March.

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