Has working group theme Participation
From COST Action FP0804: FORSYS
A list of all pages that have property "Has working group theme" with value "Participation"
- A more informative output should be generated with clear graphs and maps indicating long-term +
- An iterative process of presenting results to subject matter experts enabled them to better +
- DSS allowed to explain better some technical concepts to non-professional stakeholders +
- DSS helped document and apply decision criteria consistently, and therefore produced a more +
- End user engagement throughout the development and deployment cycle is very important +
- Finland-Strategic planning at the national forest administration +
- Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice +
- Germany-Using GISCAME to test alternative land-use scenarios under climate change in the Upper Elbe Valley +
- Getting joint funding from both the forest and environmental sectors can be a successfull for +
- Group participation with knowledgeable people is a good way to ensure that the decision hierarchy is +
- Interpretative case studies can help reduce the gap between research and practice +
- It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development +
- Italy-Assessing forest functions at stand scale in a sub-regional forest plan in the Dolomites +
- Need of a moderator function +
- Running the DSS required special skills, therefore the local planning team required considerable +
- SIPAFIT can act sometimes as a referee to settle arguments among experts, users and stakeholders +
- SIPAFIT sub-systems have been useful in training activities, and can be very useful to explain and +
- Spain-An agro-ecological Decision Support Systems for evaluting soil under scenarios of global change +
- Spain-Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forest: Valencian Community Case +
- Spatial variation between regions led to the development of different regional models, which led to +
- Stakeholders contribution in ranking forest functions +
- Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful product testers +
- The DSS gave the forest manager the opportunity to experiment how their emphasis towards certain +
- The DSS models built must match the knowledge of the local forest managers, so the ability for local +
- The ProgettoBosco working methodology, based on cooperation, successive approximations and +
- The activation of an iterative process through periodical meetings permitted to all the stakeholders +
- The adoption of the collaborative learning method made possible to gradually select the conceptual +
- The analysis of the actor network interactions allowed to identify the criticalities to be solved in order to develop the collaborative process +
- The analysis team used internal prototyping, which helped train the staff and identify possible +
- The software did not provide much support for formatting of the outputs in a format that could be +
- The tracing of the actor network supported the identification of the key actors influencing the collaborative DSS implementation and institutionalization +
- The tracing of the current actor network interactions made the group realize that they need a different kind of stakeholders from what they previously thought +
- The use of the DSS improved communication among the planning team by providing a framework of the +
- The user has to be aware of the possibly large impact that the chosen land indicators and threshold +
- To meet the needs of customer - the Forest Service - and to obtain satisfying results the +
- Use of the DSS has been considered successful by the participating organizations, even though it has +
- Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network +
- Visualization of the preliminary actor network made the people explicity include the DSS in a planning process +
