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Complex systems simulations can support collaborative water planning by allowing stakeholders to jointly see hidden effects of land- and water-use decisions on groundwater flow. We adopted a participatory modeling progression where stakeholders learned to modify and use increasingly sophisticated models to assess policy impacts on groundwater level...
This paper explores how spatial judgments impacted planning and policy-making by studying how stakeholders on Cape Cod, Massachusetts considered cross-scale relationships between local, regional, and state jurisdictions and hydro-geologically defined watersheds. Analysis of video data from participatory planning workshops illustrates how these judg...
Participatory planning traditionally requires face-to-face meetings with the public in community fora, design charrettes, planning commission meetings, and so on. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and aided by online participatory technologies, planners have been translating their face-to-face practices for use in digital forums. These new...
As the volume of ecosystem services modeling and valuation studies grows, decision-makers have access to more information than ever before on how human activities affect the provision and value of ecosystem services. However, few studies aim to understand how value information in different formats is interpreted and used by decision makers. Motivat...
The role of planning support systems has become closely aligned with the dominant theoretical paradigms – primarily collaborative planning and com- municative rationality – within the field of urban planning. However, scholars from Human-Computer Interaction have built a theoretical tradition drawing on Activity Theory, among others, to describe co...
Studies of alternative dispute resolution demonstrate how interest-based tradeoffs contribute to joint gains, yet facilitators do more than just broker deals between adversaries. This paper explores how facilitation supported the development of a regional wastewater plan on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Coded video records unearth the judgments stakehol...
How do planners compose plans that fit complex environmental systems? How do they align mismatched ecological and governance landscapes? We studied a small group of practitioners planning for groundwater sustainability to explore these questions. We recorded and transcribed their talk as they worked with geovisualization tools to diagnose and resol...
Planning researchers traditionally conceptualize learning as cognitive changes in individuals. In this tradition, scholars assess learning with pre- and post-measures of understandings or beliefs. While valuable for documenting individual change, such methods leave unexamined the social processes in which planners think, act, and learn in groups, w...
Planners making groundwater plans often use scientific hydrological forecasts to estimate long term the risk of water depletion. We study a group of Chicago planners and stakeholders who learned to use and helped develop agent-based models (ABM) of coupled land-use change and groundwater flow, to explore the effects of resource use and policy on fu...
As the world continues to urbanize, ensuring that urban residents have access to green infrastructure and the ecosystem services it provides will be critical. Furthermore, the distribution of green infrastructure within cities should be equitable so that no socioeconomic group is underserved in terms of the benefits derived from ecosystem services....
County and regional government agencies use stakeholder committees to ensure representation of diverse interests when planning, but these representatives often are not trained to understand the complexity inherent to human-environmental issues (e.g., groundwater management). Planning professionals use computer models to simulate the interaction eff...
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1. Comprehensive Plan: for the future of Schuyler Falls, we will develop a comprehensive plan that considers topics such as land use and zoning; utilities and infrastructure; greenspace, parks and recreation; transportation; environmental and natural resource conservation; economic development; and quality of life among others. The plan will include maps and data visualization tools as appropriate.
2. Research Reports: as the process unfolds and at its conclusion, we will provide research reports that detail the findings of our public engagement and data gathering efforts.
3. Draft Recommendations/Revisions to Local Ordinances, Regulations and Codes.
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