Building capacity for managing and planning sustainable land use strategies

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Building capacity for managing and planning
sustainable land use strategies

• Roy Haines-Young and Marion Potschin
• Centre for Environmental Management,
• School of Geography,
• University of Nottingham, England

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Overview
What are the contexts in which we need to build
our training programmes and training tools?
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Contexts
Elites
Rational management?
Consent?
Policy framework for action
Publics
Experts
Post-normal or Sustainability Science?
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Contexts
Elites
Rational management?
Consent?
SIA and land use
Publics
Experts
Post-normal or Sustainability Science?
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SIA Tools Understanding User Needs

• Goal of SENSOR is to develop science based
  ex-ante Sustainability Impact Assessment Tools
  (SIAT) to support decision making on policies
  related to multifunctional land use in European
  regions.
• www.sensor-ip.org

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SIA Tools Understanding User Needs

• Project brings together
• Scientists
• Policy customers/advisors
• Publics (stakeholders)

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SIA Tools Understanding User Needs
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SIA Tools Understanding User Needs

• Project brings together
• Scientists
• Policy customers/advisors
• Publics (stakeholders)
• The problem of differing perspectives..

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Contexts
Elites
Rational management?
Consent?
SIA and land use
Publics
Experts
Post-normal or Sustainability Science?
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Capacities

• Elites
• Evidence-based policy
• The intelligent customer
• Publics
• Local knowledges
• Understanding and Empowerment
• Experts
• Disciplinary straight jackets
• Uncertainties and adaptive strategies

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Capacities

• A critical understanding of the nature of
  evidence
• An understanding of the limits of science..

• Elites
• Evidence-based policy
• The intelligent customer
• Publics
• Local knowledges
• Understanding and Empowerment
• Experts
• Disciplinary straight jackets
• Uncertainties and adaptive strategies

• What role local and formal knowledges play in
  decision making
• How evidence is weighed.

• Trans-disciplinary perspectives
• Insights into the worlds of the user
• Combine quantitative and qualitative data
• How to handle values

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Sustainability and multifunctional land use
A sustainability choice space
state
Sustainable trajectory
time
(Potschin Haines-Young, 2006)
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Sustainability and multifunctional land use

• What makes the problems of sustainability and
  land use so difficult?
• Solutions need to adequate rather than
  optimal
• Choice is possible and therefore debate is
  unavoidable
• Uncertainty cannot be avoided its management is
  part of the process
• The implications of adaptive approaches to
  management and problem solving

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What kinds of capacities do we need to build?
Elites
SIAT-ED?
Rational management?
Consent?
Our SIA tools must help us learn as we do..
Publics
Experts
Post-normal or Sustainability Science?