Building Scenarios for Environmental Management and Planning: An IT-Based Approach

TL;DR

This paper presents an IT-based platform that facilitates stakeholder collaboration and semantic convergence in environmental planning, enabling the construction of alternative development scenarios through integrated, multi-source knowledge management.

Contribution

It introduces an area-based application of interactive IT tools for building environmental scenarios by integrating diverse stakeholder knowledge and promoting semantic alignment.

Findings

Effective stakeholder engagement in scenario building.

Successful integration of multi-source environmental knowledge.

Enhanced decision-making through semantic convergence.

Abstract

Oftentimes, the need to build multidiscipline knowledge bases, oriented to policy scenarios, entails the involvement of stakeholders in manifold domains, with a juxtaposition of different languages whose semantics can hardly allow inter-domain transfers. A useful support for planning is the building up of durable IT based interactive platforms, where it is possible to modify initial positions toward a semantic convergence. The present paper shows an area-based application of these tools, for the integrated distance-management of different forms of knowledge expressed by selected stakeholders about environmental planning issues, in order to build alternative development scenarios. Keywords: Environmental planning, Scenario building, Multi-source knowledge, IT-based