Creating Socio-Environmental Scenarios

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Socio-environmental systems researchers and practitioners are increasingly concerned about potential long-term impacts of near-term decisions. To provide the most effective decision support, we need to expand our understanding of the future in socio-environmental systems. In this tutorial video, Vanessa Schweizer and Hannah Kosow explore the present status and futures of creating socio-environmental scenarios. This presentation is based on the 2020 article “Scenario processes for socio-environmental systems analysis of futures: A review of recent efforts and a salient research agenda for supporting decision making."  

  • About the Presenters
    A headshot of Hannah Kosow

    Hannah Kosow

    Dr. Hannah Kosow is a researcher, project manager, and lecturer at the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Her research focuses on environmental scenarios and qualitative systems analyses. During her PhD at the Stuttgart Cluster of Excellence SimTech, she explored new qualitative-quantitative scenario methods. She also studies the participation of experts, stakeholders and citizens in research processes. Currently she works on conflicts and policy design in the fields of water and land use. 
    A headshot of Hannah Kosow

    Hannah Kosow

    Dr. Hannah Kosow is a researcher, project manager, and lecturer at the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Her research focuses on environmental scenarios and qualitative systems analyses. During her PhD at the Stuttgart Cluster of Excellence SimTech, she explored new qualitative-quantitative scenario methods. She also studies the participation of experts, stakeholders and citizens in research processes. Currently she works on conflicts and policy design in the fields of water and land use. 

    A headshot of Vanessa Schweizer

    Vanessa Schweizer

    Dr. Vanessa Schweizer is is an Associate Professor of Knowledge Integration at the University of Waterloo in the Faculty of Environment. She is also a faculty member at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation. Her research focuses on the integration of qualitative and quantitative knowledge for constructing narrative scenarios, as well as computational methods for ‘discovering’ scenarios. Her work has focused primarily on climate change, and she is a steering committee member of the International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios.  
    A headshot of Vanessa Schweizer

    Vanessa Schweizer

    Dr. Vanessa Schweizer is is an Associate Professor of Knowledge Integration at the University of Waterloo in the Faculty of Environment. She is also a faculty member at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation. Her research focuses on the integration of qualitative and quantitative knowledge for constructing narrative scenarios, as well as computational methods for ‘discovering’ scenarios. Her work has focused primarily on climate change, and she is a steering committee member of the International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios.  

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Hannah Kosow, University of Stuttgart
Vanessa Schweizer, University of Waterloo
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