Geomatic Approaches for Modeling Land Change Scenarios by María Teresa Camacho Olmedo Martin Paegelow Jean-François Mas & Francisco Escobar

Author:María Teresa Camacho Olmedo, Martin Paegelow, Jean-François Mas & Francisco Escobar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Involving stakeholders in building and using the model may indeed lead to misconceptions, but it also reduces them, as well as informing more widely about what models are and what they do. We argue that the “danger” lies in the uncritical acceptance of scientific data, whether from models or from other sources, and that our aim as researchers is to reduce this danger by encouraging participation in, and critical reflection on, the scientific process.

Human societies are already in serious danger from an economic model that makes the planet’s life support systems subservient to the accumulation of monetary capital and consumer goods. Given the urgent need to secure sustainable future for threatened ecosystems like Doñana, risks that may arise from misunderstanding a land use model are outweighed by the benefits that the participatory model development process brings, e.g. uniting stakeholders with different or opposing views to discuss the future of shared territory, transparent dissemination of the inner workings of a scientific process, building confidence in cross sector collaboration on environmental issues etc.

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