Case Lessons involving participatory planning

Has related case	Lesson	Has working group theme
Belgium-BoLa a specific sDSS to support land use planning in Flanders	The user has to be aware of the possibly large impact that the chosen land indicators and threshold	Models & techniques Participation
Belgium-Participative modelling of long-term wood production in the forest complex ‘Bosland’	A more informative output should be generated with clear graphs and maps indicating long-term	Dss development process Participation
Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice	Interpretative case studies can help reduce the gap between research and practice	Knowledge management Participation
Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice	The analysis of the actor network interactions allowed to identify the criticalities to be solved in order to develop the collaborative process	Participation
Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice	The tracing of the actor network supported the identification of the key actors influencing the collaborative DSS implementation and institutionalization	Participation
Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice	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	Dss development process Participation
Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice	Using Actor Network Theory in the design stage can help in understanding the dynamism of the network	Dss development process Participation
Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice	Visualization of the preliminary actor network made the people explicity include the DSS in a planning process	Knowledge management Participation
Germany-Using GISCAME to test alternative land-use scenarios under climate change in the Upper Elbe Valley	Need of a moderator function	Participation
Ireland-PractiSFM multi-resource inventory and decision support for private forest owners	Students studying forest management planning procedures and processes were very useful product testers	Dss development process Participation
Italy-A comprehensive system for forest management planning in Trentino Province	It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development	Dss development process Participation
Italy-A comprehensive system for forest management planning in Trentino Province	SIPAFIT can act sometimes as a referee to settle arguments among experts, users and stakeholders	Dss development process Participation Knowledge management
Italy-A comprehensive system for forest management planning in Trentino Province	SIPAFIT sub-systems have been useful in training activities, and can be very useful to explain and	Participation Knowledge management
Italy-A comprehensive system for forest management planning in Trentino Province	To meet the needs of customer - the Forest Service - and to obtain satisfying results the	Dss development process Participation Knowledge management
Italy-Assessing forest functions at stand scale in a sub-regional forest plan in the Dolomites	DSS allowed to explain better some technical concepts to non-professional stakeholders	Participation Knowledge management
Italy-Assessing forest functions at stand scale in a sub-regional forest plan in the Dolomites	Stakeholders contribution in ranking forest functions	Participation Knowledge management
Italy-ProgettoBosco a data-driven DSS for forest planning: an application in Abruzzo Region	The ProgettoBosco working methodology, based on cooperation, successive approximations and	Dss development process Participation
Italy-ProgettoBosco a data-driven DSS for forest planning: an application in Abruzzo Region	The activation of an iterative process through periodical meetings permitted to all the stakeholders	Participation
Italy-ProgettoBosco a data-driven DSS for forest planning: an application in Abruzzo Region	The adoption of the collaborative learning method made possible to gradually select the conceptual	Dss development process Participation
New Zealand-Modular Forest Management DSS in NZ	End user engagement throughout the development and deployment cycle is very important	Participation Knowledge management
Spain-Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forest: Valencian Community Case	Group participation with knowledgeable people is a good way to ensure that the decision hierarchy is	Participation
Sweden-The development and introduction of versatile DSS in Sweden	Getting joint funding from both the forest and environmental sectors can be a successfull for	Dss development process Participation
United States-The forest plan revision process in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	Running the DSS required special skills, therefore the local planning team required considerable	Participation Knowledge management
United States-The forest plan revision process in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	The DSS models built must match the knowledge of the local forest managers, so the ability for local	Dss development process Participation Knowledge management
United States-The restoration strategy of the dry and mesic landscape in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	The DSS gave the forest manager the opportunity to experiment how their emphasis towards certain	Participation Knowledge management
United States-The restoration strategy of the dry and mesic landscape in the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest	The use of the DSS improved communication among the planning team by providing a framework of the	Participation Knowledge management
United States-Watershed Condition Assessment for the Northwest Forest Plan	An iterative process of presenting results to subject matter experts enabled them to better	Participation Knowledge management
United States-Watershed Condition Assessment for the Northwest Forest Plan	DSS helped document and apply decision criteria consistently, and therefore produced a more	Participation Knowledge management
United States-Watershed Condition Assessment for the Northwest Forest Plan	Spatial variation between regions led to the development of different regional models, which led to	Participation Knowledge management
United States-Watershed Condition Assessment for the Northwest Forest Plan	The analysis team used internal prototyping, which helped train the staff and identify possible	Participation Knowledge management
United States-Watershed Condition Assessment for the Northwest Forest Plan	The software did not provide much support for formatting of the outputs in a format that could be	Participation Knowledge management
United States-Watershed Condition Assessment for the Northwest Forest Plan	Use of the DSS has been considered successful by the participating organizations, even though it has	Participation Knowledge management