Editor\u2019s note:<\/em><\/strong> The following is a guest post by Geospatial Analytics Ph.D. student Corey White.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rapid urban development and the increasing frequency of severe precipitation events are leaving the Triangle Region of North Carolina vulnerable to increased flooding and water quality degradation. As the Triangle continues to grow in population and development increases, so does the total volume of stormwater runoff city planners and regulators need to manage. News headlines from around the globe (Germany<\/a> and China<\/a>, July 2021) exemplify how previously benign stormwater issues can result in catastrophic damages and loss of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TomorrowNow aims to play with the concept of spatially framing problems by encouraging the collaboration of bottom-up (grassroots) and top-down (policy) players. For example, in the game players will face problems at different spatial scales with a limited set of actions filtered by the spatial scale. Each player can develop their own solutions to various problems and understand the wider impacts of their choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TomorrowNow represents a new way of thinking about traditional city\/county planning meetings (public engagement) by allowing community members to participate on their own time and focus on the locations that are important to them. To learn more about the results of the workshops, read the full (open access) publication<\/a> \u201cSpatially Explicit Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for Participatory Modeling of Stormwater Management\u201d recently published in the MDPI journal Land<\/em> special issue<\/a> Towards Sustainable Land-Water Interactions in the Anthropocene: The Role of Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory Modelling<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n
Rapid urban development and the increasing frequency of severe precipitation events are leaving the Triangle Region of North Carolina vulnerable to increased flooding and water quality degradation. As the Triangle continues to grow in population and development increases, so does the total volume of stormwater runoff city planners and regulators need to manage. News headlines from around the globe (Germany<\/a> and China<\/a>, July 2021) exemplify how previously benign stormwater issues can result in catastrophic damages and loss of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TomorrowNow aims to play with the concept of spatially framing problems by encouraging the collaboration of bottom-up (grassroots) and top-down (policy) players. For example, in the game players will face problems at different spatial scales with a limited set of actions filtered by the spatial scale. Each player can develop their own solutions to various problems and understand the wider impacts of their choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TomorrowNow represents a new way of thinking about traditional city\/county planning meetings (public engagement) by allowing community members to participate on their own time and focus on the locations that are important to them. To learn more about the results of the workshops, read the full (open access) publication<\/a> \u201cSpatially Explicit Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for Participatory Modeling of Stormwater Management\u201d recently published in the MDPI journal Land<\/em> special issue<\/a> Towards Sustainable Land-Water Interactions in the Anthropocene: The Role of Stakeholder Engagement and Participatory Modelling<\/em>.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"