Integrating Community and PolicyMaking: Structural Analysis and MICMAC Tool

LONDON, SILVIA; ROJAS, MARA

Girona

Congreso; XVIII Congress of the SIGEF, International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy; 2015

International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy

Structural prospective analysis is one of the most used tools in studies about the future. This method was born from the Forrester?s works on industrial dynamics and, then, generalized to urban dynamics. The approach is based on the analysis of multiple and homogeneous, qualitative and quantitative variables and its interrelations. Particularly, in the communitarian use of natural resources, participative methodologies are useful to obtain the main variables. We study the methodological consistence of those interrelations. With the illustration of a particular case, we show that this method is potentially efficient for economic policies delineation, despite to have some weaknesses.