Transformative Participation for Socio-Ecological Sustainability : Around the CoOPLAGE Pathways.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hassenforder, Emeline.

Contributor:

Ferrand, Nils.

Series:

Update Sciences and Technologies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Community organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Versailles : Quae, 2024.

Summary:

This book, edited by Emeline Hassenforder and Nils Ferrand, explores participatory approaches to socio-ecological challenges, emphasizing the importance of stakeholder involvement in sustainable development. It presents a collection of experiences and methodologies that aim to empower communities to engage in decision-making processes that affect their environmental systems. The book advocates for a shift from top-down governance to collaborative strategies, highlighting the need for new cooperative practices that recognize diversity and foster solidarity. It targets researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in participatory governance and sustainable futures. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Participatory approaches to developing sustainable futures: A global perspective

Chapter 2. The CoOPLAGE approach: When actors model their situation, principles or plans together for sustainable, empowering decision-making and change

Chapter 3. The context of citizen participation in water management in France

Part 1. The Foundations of Public Participation for Socio-Ecological Sustainability

Chapter 4. Developing a culture of participation: Progress and considerations in France

Chapter 5. Territorial facilitator, a profession to be developed and defended: A Tunisian experience

Chapter 6. Participation and the construction of social acceptability: Fantasy or reality?

Chapter 7. Supporting participatory processes in territorial governance: The researcher’s “risky” stance

Chapter 8. Supporting participatory policy making with an integrated digital platform: The e-CoOPILOT approach

Part 2. Engineering and Evaluating Participatory Decision Processes

Chapter 9. Engineering participation: Preparing and designing a participatory process

Chapter 10. Evaluating a participatory process

Insert 1. "Participation compass", a web application to organiseand track participatory processes

Chapter 11. Participating is also learning!

Part 3. Participatory Modelling to Support Decision and Change

Chapter 12. Designing and using role-playing games for water and land management

Insert 2. LittoWAG: a companion game for coastal risk adaptation

Chapter 13. “L’Eau en Têt”: An educational role-playing kit to educate people on participation

Chapter 14. Integrating expert technical knowledge in a sanitation planning process with stakeholders: WasteWAG modelling and game in Senegal

Chapter 15. Influence at the margin: Participation and water infrastructure in the Cambodian Mekong delta

Chapter 16. Enhancing the characterisation of floods, water resources and their impacts through participatory observation

Part 4. Planning for Transforming towards Socio-Ecological Sustainability

Chapter 17. CoOPLAN multi-scale participatory planning process: Applications in Uganda and elsewhere

Insert 3. Feedback from a large-scale citizen participatoryprocess on the Drôme river basin

Chapter 18. Shared Water Policy in New Caledonia: Feedback on a mechanism for policy co-construction and co-planning

Chapter 19. Opportunities and challenges of transferring the CoOPLAGE approach to Integrated Water Resources Management in a Beninese wetland

Conclusion

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ISBN:

9782759239214

2759239217