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| Jilong Zhong, M.Sc. Student
B.Sc. Natural Resources Conservation, University of British Colombia (2024) Canada; B.Sc. Ecology, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University (2024), China Email: jilong.zhong@mail.mcgill.ca
Interests: Conflict Transformation, Stakeholders Analysis, Participatory Scenario Planning, Urban Green Space management
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Research Summary:
Assessing the potential for Participatory Scenario Planning to facilitate conflict transformation in urban green spaces: The case of the Morgan Arboretum
Urban green spaces are essential natural resources in cities, including but not limited to parks, forests, wetlands, and grasslands. Under the pressures of urbanization and climate change, urban green spaces play increasingly important ecological and social roles, such as mitigating climate change, providing natural habitats, and enhancing public well-being. Stakeholders hold diverse values, leading to different needs, expectations, and perspectives regarding urban green spaces. When management fails to accommodate these pluralistic values and diverse demands, stakeholder conflicts often arise. With appropriate management strategies, conflicts have the potential to become a constructive process, transforming the pattern of stakeholder relationships and resolving conflicts.Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP) is a research approach that engages stakeholders in the decision-making process and has the potential to serve as a platform for conflict transformation.
My research aims to analyze stakeholder values and conflict in the Morgan Arboretum, an urban green space on the Island of Montreal. I will then examine whether PSP can contribute to transforming the identified conflicts among stakeholders.
Awards and Scholarships:
Graduate Excellence Fellowships (2024-2026)
Project Publications:
Still to come
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