Modelling outputs from a stakeholders' self-modeling to catch environmental uncertainty

Jérémy Bourgoin (1) , Patrick Daquino (2)

1 UMR TETIS - Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale
2 UPR GREEN - Gestion des ressources renouvelables et environnement

A participatory modeling approach called "self-design" has been experimented in Senegal with the aim of letting farmers design their own model of the local natural resources management issues. The success of the experiment and its outputs led to a new participatory modeling approach based on the central principle of letting stakeholders design and use their own conceptual model of environmental management. This unusual endogenous design resulted in a qualitative but nevertheless worthy model of the Sahelian environmental uncertainty, which is currently enriching the debate about the value of local worldviews for environmental modeling.

Mots clés: Participatory modeling; uncertainty; drylands; Sahel; indigenous; local knowledge; environmental management

Domaines: Sociologie; Ingénierie de l'environnement

Jérémy Bourgoin, Patrick Daquino. Modelling outputs from a stakeholders' self-modeling to catch environmental uncertainty: A case study in the Sahel. 2014. ⟨hal-01068080⟩