Case Studies
The Scenarios exercises below were funded by the Government of the Netherlands through its Programme for Cooperation with International Institutes (SII) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the ASB Scenarios project. The MA Secretariat provided conceptual guidance, training and technical support for this project.
Exploring the Future: Madre de Dios, Peru
An Exploratory Scenario exercise with university students living in the city of Puerto Maldonado (Madre de Dios, Peru) was developed in order to understand their opinions about the future of the region, focussing particularly on the construction of the Brazil-Peru inter-oceanic highway.
The information gathered in this exercise has been used to create materials for distribution to the general public and is given to the main institutions in the region. This allows us to understand the points of view of the youth of Madre de Dios which are then taken into account by the local institutions. Furthermore, the experience of applying the Scenarios methodology allowed us to create academic materials (a methodology manual) that could be used in university courses in the region.
Exploring the Future: Madre de Dios. Workshop Report (855 KB)
Explorando el Futuro: Madre de Dios. Reporte del taller Escenarios (855 KB)
Exploring the Future: Ucayali
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An exploratory Scenario exercise was developed with professionals, researchers, university professors, and native leaders from the city of Pucallpa (Ucayali, Peru) with the purpose of revealing their foremost opinions with regards to the future of the region, and with an emphasis on the bilateral communication between Peru and Brazil. The workshop achieved its main objective of compiling the perceptions of the professionals, researchers, university professors and native leaders of the city of Pucallpa (Ucayali, Peru) in regards to the future of the Region. As well, it allowed us to compile the information necessary to put together documents of an academic nature for distribution.
Exploring the Future: Ucayali. Scenarios Workshop Report (974 KB)
Explorando el Futuro: Ucayali. Reporte del taller Escenarios (974 KB)
Participatory scenarios for sustainable management of an ASB benchmark site in Thailand: The case of Mae Kong Kha sub-watershed of Mae Chaem watershed
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In the Ban Mae Khong-Kha, Mae Chaem watershed, Chiang Mai, Thailand, competition for water was escalating as urban and industrial expansion was increasing in the lowlands, and deforestation for high input mono-cropping practices went unchecked in the uplands. Upstream-downstream disputes intensified. Upstream (Pgakanyaw) and downstream (Khon Muang) indigenous communities, local authorities and researchers discussed together the future of the watershed for the first time using the Scenarios method. Scientists had been focusing solely on solving water use problems, but community members had a bigger vision.
They recommended to the local authorities that the 'holy forest' be set aside for conservation. As a result, tensions abated and local communities and administrators joined forces to plan for sustainable natural resource management.
The case of Mae Kong Kha Subwatershed of Mae Chaem Watershed (350 KB)
Participatory scenarios for sustainable management of an ASB benchmark site in Thailand (87 KB)
Fortalecimento do manejo florestal comunitário em assentamento rural na Amazônia Ocidental, Rondônia, Brasil
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Nilson Campos rural settlement, in the Sate of Rondônia, is an example of the accelerated process of human occupation in the region, characterized by landscape and land use pattern changes, by slash and burn practices. Embrapa Rondônia has carried out the project: Community organization helping the forest management in rural settlement - Jacy Paraná - Rondônia, which main objective is to prepare family farmers, settled from agrarian reform, for implementing the community forest management through a participatory socio-educative program.
The Local Community Study Group (CEG) on forest management, involving the inhabitants of the settlement, held of a workshop on Scenarios for forest management, and a basic course on sustainable forest management, involving environmental laws, and the importance and functions of wood and non wood forest products for improving livelihoods.
Read about the workshop on forest management and scenarios by Embrapa Rondonia (in Portuguese)
The Sustainable Development Mountain Ecosystem Programme in Peru (PDSEMP) is established to contribute to natural resource management through the environment watershed program.
The Chalaco subwatershed in
This Scenarios exercise pioneered the ASB Scenarios Project. The Scenarios exercises and other activities have helped refine the PDSEMP. Initially the PDSEMP focused on larger activities but soon realized that there is a need for more focused projects such as reforestation projects, producers' organization and marketing linkages and improvement of water use. The ASB Scenarios Project provided education to participants in order to promote awareness on building the future of Chalaco.
Construyendo el Futuro de Chalaco, Reporte del Taller de Escenarios (656 KB)