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Pathways towards a sustainable kunuku landscape - exploring transdisciplinary foresight and ambiguity in Bonaire

Imagination is understood as a vital element of transformations towards sustainable human societies. This study explores scientific foresights and their relationship to ambiguity in the context of the kunuku landscape on Bonaire.
This research constitutes out of four research activities. Firstly, six objects of ambiguity as well as four subjects with converging stakeholder frames were identified through a thematic analysis. Secondly, a stakeholder-driven stakeholder categorisation was conducted to portray
the societal network connected to the kunuku landscape. Subsequently, three pathways – consisting out of 58 specific actions – towards a sustainable kunuku landscape in 2050 were co-created within a participatory backcast. Lastly, a novel analytical framework for foresight
processes was applied to scrutinise the backcasting and its preceding visioning process.
Based on its findings, this study concludes by recommending a pluralistic, ‘opening-up’ approach towards anticipatory governance and by supporting calls for theory-backed, transdisciplinary foresight processes.

Date
2022
Data type
Research report
Theme
Research and monitoring
Report number
MSc thesis 1048936
Geographic location
Bonaire
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NetBiome CSA biodiversity toolbox

The Biodiversity Management Toolbox is a product of the NetBiome CSA network, a partnership for research and sustainable management of  (sub)tropical biodiversity in the European Outermost Regions (ORs) and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). This toolbox, focusing on the (tropical and subtropical) European OR/OCTs. provides a database of stakeholders involved in biodiversity management and research . This includes details on their areas of expertise, interests and activities, and—for registered users—their contact details too. The toolbox also provides a list of case studies for biodiversity valuation in, or relevant to, the EU OR/OCTs, with links to the original studies. Other resources include a list of good practices for biodiversity conservation, and a list of training and communication materials on biodiversity valuation with links to the original sources. In addition to these data resources, the toolbox provides a dedicated communication tool for registered stakeholders, allowing them  to launch queries or discussions, develop projects or seek partners for collaboration.

Date
2014
Data type
Portal
Theme
Education and outreach
Research and monitoring
Geographic location
Aruba
Bonaire
Curacao
Saba
Saba bank
St. Eustatius
St. Maarten
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NetBiome CSA biodiversity toolbox