Why do we build scenarios?

Combined with ecosystem services assessment (ESA) methods in the VALMER project, scenarios are useful participative tools to engage stakeholders on marine and coastal management issues. All VALMER’s work-packages (WP) are interconnected and can be associated in different ways depending of the context and skills of the team at the site being studied.

The scenario building process is one of a number of actions within the VALMER project. A number of activities undertaken since the project began, either within the project’s work packages or at the case study sites, are all important for the scenario building process. Some steps can be achieved in a different order, for example the ESA of WP1 can be achieved before, during or after the scenario building process of WP3.