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    More details about the AtollGame can be found online at http://cormas.cirad.fr/en/applica/atollGame.htm.

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    Olivier Barreteau

  2. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 50152600 GA, The Netherlands

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  3. Centre for Policy Innovation, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

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Further Reading

Participatory modelling is increasingly present in special sessions of conferences or special features of scientific journals. A first source of further readings consists in case studies. Among others, Environmental Modelling and Software had a special issue on modelling with stakeholders (Bousquet and Voinov 2010), where readers will find a whole set of well described case studies using various methods. The biennial international Environmental Modelling and Software conferences have also specific tracks for participatory modelling; proceedings are available online (see http://www.iemss.org/society/ under publications). For specific tools, refer to the papers of a symposium on simulation and gaming in natural resource management, published as a special issue of Simulation and Gaming (volume 38, issues 2 and 3). The introductory paper giving an overview is (Barreteau et al. 2007).

Reflexivity is crucial for practitioners of participatory processes, as part of the need for more cautious evaluation of participatory processes as pointed out by Rowe and Frewer (2004). Another direction for reading consists in methods for evaluation and assessment of stakeholder involvement in modelling processes. Etienne edited a whole book aiming at assessing consequences of a specific approach, so-called companion modelling (Étienne 2011).

Readers who are more interested in stakeholder involvement in modelling at a more technical level should go for the review paper of Ramanath and Gilbert (2004) which provides a nice overview of this point of view.

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