Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 197, Issue 1, Pages 360-370Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.06.013
Keywords
Strategic planning; Scenarios; Transdisciplinarity; Conflicts; Competition for scarce resources
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Multi-sectoral systems, such as cities or regional economies, face strategic challenges of optimal development due to the complexity of interacting perspectives, interests, and preferences of decision-makers and stakeholders. In coping with these challenges, integrated approaches in strategic planning and decision support promise to generate more efficient and effective results than sectoral approaches. In this article, we follow the concept of operational research (OR) by applying a formalized approach to cross-sectoral integrated planning and decision-making in complex, i.e., multi-sectoral systems. The presented Transdisciplinary Integrated Planning and Synthesis (TIPS) approach relies on (soft) OR methods combined in a multi-methodological framework that is adapted to the cognitive skills and habits of the stakeholders and experts involved in mutual and joint learning processes (transdisciplinarity). This methodological contribution structures, formalizes, and empirically illustrates cross-sectoral integrated strategic planning step by step, and evaluates the TIPS methodology against requirements for integrated approaches derived from literature. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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