Scenario Praxis for Systemic Governance: A Critical Framework

Ray Ison, Andrea Grant and Richard Bawden
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Ray Ison: Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; Engineering and Innovation Department, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, Bucks, England; and Systemic Development Institute, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
Andrea Grant: School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Richard Bawden: Systemic Development Institute, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

Environment and Planning C, 2014, vol. 32, issue 4, 623-640

Abstract: Scenario praxis, critically explored as the theory-informed practice of scenarioing, is proposed as a modality for institutionalising knowing within a systemic governance framework. Framing and institutional considerations associated with a constructivist inquiry-based learning approach that might open capacity for innovation in future scenarioing praxis are outlined to complement and counterbalance positivistoriented evidence-based approaches. Drawing on espoused theoretical and epistemological commitments, background literature, researcher experience, and our framing choices, we describe a heuristic device for use ex post to critically examine accounts of past scenario development, or ex ante to generate scenarios. The heuristic and its process of generation are designed for use in context-sensitive ways suited to the systemic governance of climate change adaptation and similar situations that can be framed as ‘wicked’ or uncertain.

Keywords: governance; social learning; scenarioing; institutions; learning systems; practice contexts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1068/c11327

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