Participatory Listing, Ranking, and Scoring of Ecosystem Services and Drivers of Change

This step-by-step guide provides instructions for three participatory techniques that we used in the project focus groups and interviews: listing, ranking, and scoring. These are easy-to-implement techniques that can be used to identify people’s knowledge, perceptions, and opinions about a particular topic. The techniques presented in this guide can be used by natural resource managers and specialists on other national and state forests to better collect data about stakeholders’ knowledge regarding natural resources. The ultimate goal of these techniques is to identify ways to enhance such knowledge, and to promote collective actions and participatory management. The guide also provides the main findings of the study.

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