Strategic planning - manuals and guidelines

Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. La boîte à outils de la Prospective Stratégique. (available at http://www.cnam.fr/lipsor/lips/conferences/data/bo-lips-fr.pdf.)
Excellent ouvrage de référence qui, en plus de détailler les outils, reprend les idées clés de la prospective et des exemples d�application (Armements, EDF, cas Axa France). Il est plus efficace car il résume les éléments essentiels du Manuel de Prospective Stratégique 1 et 2.
European Environment Agency. Scenarios as tools for international environment assessments. (available at http://reports.eea.eu.int/environmental_issue_report_2001_24/en/issue_report_no_24.pdf.)
Scenarios can be useful tools in international environmental assessments for evaluating future environmental problems, and this report is intended to contribute to improving scenario-building and analysis for decision-makers. It proposes a step-wise approach to scenario development and draws on some relevant scenario-building exercises, including recent activities of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and World Water Commission.
European Forest Institute. European Forest Information Scenario Model. European Forest Institute. (available at http://www.efi.fi/projects/forsce/efiscen.pdf.)
EFISCEN is a forest resource projection model. It is used to gain insight into the future development of European forets in issues as sustainable management regimes, wood production possibilities, nature oriented forest management, climate change impacts, natural oriented disturbances, and carbon balance issues.
European Forest Institute. Forest scenario modelling for Ecosystem management at landscape level. European Forest Institute. (available at http://www.efi.fi/publications/Proceedings/19.html.)
This approach is more than scenario modelling to predict the consequences of possible changes in forest management practices. It is a tool for better forest management.
FOREN Network. A Practical Guide to Regional Foresight. (available at http://foren.jrc.es/Docs/eur20128en.pdf.)
This �Practical Guide� aims to explain how Foresight can be used at regional and other sub-national territorial levels. It sets out different approaches to Foresight, when and where their use may be appropriate, and how local conditions have to be taken into account in the design of a Foresight process.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Methods. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (available at http://www.millenniumassessment.org/.)
This report assembles information from each of the MA Technical Support Units describing the methods being used to conduct the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. It is useful to individuals interested in applying the methods to other assessment and research activities.
Global Scenario Group. Bending the curve: towards global sustainability. Global Scenario Group. (available at http://www.tellus.org/seib/publications/bendingthecurve.pdf.)
This report analyzes the prospects for sustainability within the confines of Conventional Worlds scenarios. It introduces social and environmental targets and strategies for reaching them. It shows both the great potential for progress and the daunting challenges within a growth-driven development paradigm.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Les perspectives de l'environnement de l'OCDE. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (available at http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/9701012E.PDF.)
A partir d'une analyse des facteurs économiques, sociaux et technologiques qui ont un impact sur l'environnement, cet ouvrage fournit, à l'horizon 2020, des projections des pressions exercées sur l'environnement par des secteurs clés de l�économie.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Environmental Outlook. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (available at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/6/2088589.pdf.)
Using an economy-based vision of developments to 2020, the OECD Environmental Outlook identifies the drivers of environmental change (the economy, population, globalisation, etc.), the specific sectors that put the greatest pressure on the environment, and the resulting environmental impacts
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Perspectiva medioambiental de la OCDE. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (available at http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/9701014E5.PDF.)
En esta Perspectiva medioambiental de la OCDE se presenta una evaluación con base económica de las presiones y condiciones medioambientales de cara al 2020, se señalan opciones políticas prácticas para llevar la perspectiva en una dirección medioambientalmente más favorable, y se analizan las consecuencias económicas y medioambientales potenciales de la implantación de dichas políticas.
UW Center for Limnology. Scenario Planning. (available at http://limnology.wisc.edu/peterson/scenarios.html.)
This page provides general information on scenarios and many links to other interesting sites.
last updated: Thursday, October 27, 2005