Transformative Participation for Socio-Ecological Sustainability

This book aims to give practitioners and researchers an overview of a coherent body of work and results on participatory decision processes aiming at Socio-Ecological Sustainability, implemented in several countries. It covers topics ranging from co-design of participatory processes, to diagnosis, planning, and monitoring and evaluation of processes and impacts - with a common framework based on participatory modeling.

Nils Ferrand  is a researcher at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) and at the French National Research Institute for Digital Science and Technology (INRIA). He initiated the development of CoOPLAGE, a set of complementary participatory tools designed to meet the needs of stakeholders engaged towards socio-ecological transitions.