Participatory Environmental Planning in Coastal Areas
Tainan, Taiwan, June 20, 2016
Combining Science and Stakeholder Involvement is an increasingly critical issue in supporting decision making. Prof. Hsiao-Wen Wang (Dept. of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU) co-taught with Prof. Randolph Hester and Prof. Marcia Mcnally (Dept. Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley) in the workshop of 2016 Participatory Environmental Planning in Coastal Areas from April 28th to 30th with an aim of integrating the values of environment, society, economics and cultures into costal environmental plan through the participation of locals.
About 20 participants from different countries, such as Taiwan, Indonesia, the US, and Vietnam, with various backgrounds including hydraulic and ocean engineering, natural hazards mitigation and management, biology, architecture and such joined the three-day workshop which was composed of in-class interactive lectures and field studio.
Three professors walked the participants through the lectures such as “successful participatory cases sharing”, “12 steps in participatory planning”, “combining science and stakeholder involvement for decision making”, and “how environmental policy agenda can serve economic development needs and meet local community goal” as well as facilitated the exercises of “personal analysis of project”, “listening practice”, and “data mapping”.
The insightful worldwide experiences provided by the three professors and the interactions among participants stimulated comprehensive brainstorming. During the field studio, participants led by the three professors interacted in card games with the locals at fish ponds, temples, or other local communities to understand their everyday experience and what they care the most in terms of development and environmental issues at abandoned Salt Pond in Budai Township, Chiayi County. The temple cultures, fish farms, flood protection, characteristic products and environmental education are the top 5 issues identified by 55 interviewed locals.
Prof. Wang and her team have been making efforts on combining science and stakeholder involvement for years. With her expertise on water management in high-risk coastal areas, she found out the opportunities in supporting decision making. Her team will continue the efforts by communication, connections, promotions, cultivations, participatory, and actions.
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Combining Science and Stakeholder Involvement is an increasingly critical issue in supporting decision making. Prof. Hsiao-Wen Wang (Dept. of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU) co-taught with Prof. Randolph Hester and Prof. Marcia Mcnally (Dept. Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley) in the workshop of 2016 Participatory Environmental Planning in Coastal Areas from April 28th to 30th with an aim of integrating the values of environment, society, economics and cultures into costal environmental plan through the participation of locals.
About 20 participants from different countries, such as Taiwan, Indonesia, the US, and Vietnam, with various backgrounds including hydraulic and ocean engineering, natural hazards mitigation and management, biology, architecture and such joined the three-day workshop which was composed of in-class interactive lectures and field studio.
Three professors walked the participants through the lectures such as “successful participatory cases sharing”, “12 steps in participatory planning”, “combining science and stakeholder involvement for decision making”, and “how environmental policy agenda can serve economic development needs and meet local community goal” as well as facilitated the exercises of “personal analysis of project”, “listening practice”, and “data mapping”.
The insightful worldwide experiences provided by the three professors and the interactions among participants stimulated comprehensive brainstorming. During the field studio, participants led by the three professors interacted in card games with the locals at fish ponds, temples, or other local communities to understand their everyday experience and what they care the most in terms of development and environmental issues at abandoned Salt Pond in Budai Township, Chiayi County. The temple cultures, fish farms, flood protection, characteristic products and environmental education are the top 5 issues identified by 55 interviewed locals.
Prof. Wang and her team have been making efforts on combining science and stakeholder involvement for years. With her expertise on water management in high-risk coastal areas, she found out the opportunities in supporting decision making. Her team will continue the efforts by communication, connections, promotions, cultivations, participatory, and actions.
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