Presentation at the EGU GA
Victoria Herbig, a master’s student in the Science, Technology, and Policy program, presented her master’s thesis on the topic of inclusive stakeholder engagement at the EGU General Assembly 2024 in Vienna. Read more about her topic in this blog.
Victoria’s thesis focuses on establishing an inclusive modeling environment that ensures representation and decision-making embody diverse stakeholders’ perspectives, knowledge, and interests, including those of policymakers. At the EGU GA 2024, her presentation, titled “From Stakeholder Engagement to Inclusivity: Advancing Participatory Modeling for Net-Zero Sustainable Development,” was centered around the assessment and integration of the dimension of “inclusivity” within participatory modeling processes and demonstrating its integration within a transdisciplinary framework within the context of the DIAMOND project, funded by the Horizon Europe framework (2022-2026). She presented a conceptual definition of an inclusive modeling environment and exemplified how it is implemented in practice, concluding with the powerful statement that model development must go beyond fine-tuning parameters and viewing stakeholder engagement merely as expert elicitation for some technical details.