Bringing Landscape Visualization Tools to Practice: Prerequisites for Successful Development Approaches

摘要: To bridge the gap between environmental science and policy for securing landscape qualities in the long term, is a need that has been called for some time now. Still implementation fails at the scale of local communities where landscape changes actually occur (Opdam et al. 2013). To overcome this shortcoming, more collaborative planning and design approaches are regarded essential. Furthermore, tools supporting the integration of diverse disciplinary and local knowledge as well as social learning at the local landscape scale shall foster developing a shared vision and finding acceptable and effective solutions to adapt the landscape to future needs (Opdam et al. 2013; Opdam et al. 2015). Visualization tools prove useful for supporting a better understanding of planning issues and collaborative processes (Wissen Hayek 2011). However, the visualization products need not only suit the particular planning tasks but also be credible and legitimate to the intended audience (Lovett et al. 2015; Wissen Hayek et al. 2015). In this paper we demonstrate examples from three studies of how such visualization products can be achieved and discuss our insights about prerequisites for successful development of visualization tools.