Does Shared Vision Planning only apply to water resources issues?
A. Not necessarily. IWR and others involved with this approach have only applied it to water problems. The nature of the Corps planning process is specifically designed for water management problems. However, a planning process suitable for other types of natural resources problems (e.g., forest management) could be addressed using Shared Vision Planning using models and a public participation process that are appropriate for that problem. Other researchers and practitioners have applied approaches similar to Shared Vision Planning to other types of problems (e.g., see the book Mediated Modeling by Marjan van den Belt).
