Wise Waikato Integrated Scenario Explorer: Technical Specifications Version 1.4

Author: Waikato Regional Council et al.

About this report

Creating Futures was a 4-year project (2006-2010) funded by the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. The project brought together an interdisciplinary team consisting of a regional council and social, environmental and economic researchers. The project aimed to develop new methods and tools to support integrated, long-term planning by 1) developing processes to evaluate, deliberate, and choose regional futures through scenario analysis and multi-criteria deliberation frameworks, and 2) developing an integrated spatial decision support system (ISDSS), dubbed the Waikato Integrated Scenario Explorer or WISE, to support the evaluation and deliberation processes. Together those tools were designed to help councils identify links and explore trade-offs between economic, environmental and social/cultural outcomes and the cumulative effects of many decisions over space and time.

This report outlines the technical specifications for WISE Version 1.4.WISE is an integrated framework designed to help examine weakly structured or unstructured problems characterised by many actors, many possibilities, and high uncertainty. WISE (version 1.0) was originally developed under objective 2 of the Creating Futures project to support and facilitate a range of integrated, long-term policy development and planning processes undertaken by Waikato Regional Council, in particular the development of regional policy and planning under the Resource Management Act, long-term council community planning

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