Reconciling east-african wetland conservation with human needs: managing uncertainties in environmental policy design

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dc.creatorLangensiepen, Matthias
dc.creatorOpiyo, Erick Omwandho
dc.creatorKaudia, Alice A
dc.creatorRugege, Denis
dc.creatorKyambadde, Richard
dc.creatorAkotsi, Erick
dc.creatorNingu, Julius K
dc.creatorMunyazikwiye, Faustin
dc.creatorNgaboyamahina, Theogene
dc.creatorUrassa, Justin K
dc.creatorUgen, Michael
dc.creatorOyieke, Dieudonné Sebashongore Helida
dc.creatorMisana, Salome
dc.creatorKammesheidt, Ludwig
dc.creatorBecker, Mathias
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T07:34:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-05T07:29:21Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T07:34:22Z
dc.date.created2023-08-04T07:34:22Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractRapidly developing societies in East-Africa impose increasing pressures on wetlands due to rising food demand and degradation of upland soils. Reconciling wetland conservation with human needs for food and energy is therefore becoming an increasing contentious issue. Stakeholders and actor coalitions generate and apply a great variety of meanings, values, and interests when interacting with wetlands which are hardly predictable. Wetland policy-making is hence fraught with uncertainties which need to be managed for finding solutions to this problem. Based on experiences of a collaborative wetland research in East-Africa we developed a new wetland policy process framework which promotes social deliberation and reconciliation of plural wetland values to reduce these uncertainties. A new cognitive-driven information design (CDID) method has been developed to assist wetland policy-analysts in achieving these aims and also to overcome limitations of prescriptive decision-making. The method employs information and communication technologies to analyze, integrate and visualize complex socio-ecological wetland information for developing policy scenarios. It is applied at all stages of the wetland policy process including agenda setting, identification of plural wetland values, establishment of decision-scenarios, social deliberation during policy formulation, governmental decision-taking, policy implementation and evaluation. A three-stage implementation process is recommended.
dc.identifierLangensiepen, M., Opiyo, E.O., Kaudia, A.A. et al. Reconciling East-African Wetland Conservation with Human Needs: Managing Uncertainties in Environmental Policy Design. Wetlands 43, 36 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01679-2
dc.identifierhttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5527
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.costech.or.tz/handle/20.500.14732/98129
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands
dc.relationWetlands (2023) 43:36;
dc.subjectWetland use
dc.subjectConservation
dc.subjectEcosystem Services
dc.subjectPlural Valuation
dc.subjectDecision-making
dc.subjectPolicy process theory
dc.titleReconciling east-african wetland conservation with human needs: managing uncertainties in environmental policy design
dc.typeArticle

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