DOUGUET Jean-Marc's Blog – June 2008 Archive (4)

Ker-ALARM “Biodiversity Europe” is an interactive on-line deliberation support tool (DST) for discovery and analysis of the biodiversity challenges facing public policy makers, the business world, scientists and civil society.



Allying science and stakeholder dialogue processes for risk governance, Ker-ALARM introduces visitors to state-of-the-art integrated environmental assessment and participatory evaluation practices.

Participate, via the Deliberation Matrix (The Cube), in a… Continue

The VIRTUALIS Project uses interactive multimedia technologies for the initiation of interested users to environmental risks and governance challenges. The focus of the project is not the production of information but rather the "mediation of knowledge" - facilitating the learning by non-specialist members of society. VIRTUALIS has therefore produced a suite of products with a pedagogic mission. The multimedia creations permit the user to learn through progressive discovery of virtual worlds… Continue

In relation to policy, "the environment" is particularly challenging. It includes masses of detail concerning many particular issues, which require separate analysis and management. At the same time, there are broad strategic issues, which should guide regulatory work, such as those connected with "sustainability". Nothing can be managed in a convenient isolation; issues are mutually implicated; problems extend across many scale levels of space and time; and uncertainties and value-loadings of… Continue

The KERDST is an on-line tool, developed with ‘Open Source’ conventions, offering to users a multi-stakeholder multi-criteria deliberation framework that can be applied to any situation of choice or debate.

The construction of a multi-stakeholder multi-criteria deliberation framework involves the mobilisation of two main types of information, descriptive and normative. These are the requirements for:

1. REPRESENTING THE SITUATION (or, more generally, the set of situations considered… Continue