Scenario Planning

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is working with a wide array of partners to create the Consortium for Scenario Planning, a new initiative to help prepare professionals in urban and rural areas for uncertain futures. The Consortium will expand understanding and capacity in Scenario Planning processes and software tools. For more information, visit the Consortium for Scenario Planning website at http://www.scenarioplanning.io.

The Consortium is the most recent of the Lincoln Institute's efforts to advance scenario planning as a best practice in land use planning and related fields, and will serve as a mechanism to align and reinforce activities undertaken by the Lincoln Institute and others.

Recent Lincoln Institute scenario planning work includes:

Research. Read Lincoln’s 2012 report Opening Access to Scenario Planning Tools. To learn about exploratory scenario planning, read Exploratory Scenario Planning: Lessons from the Field. Lincoln’s newest working paper, An Evaluation Framework for the Use of Scenarios in Urban Planning, was just published in November 2017.

Tool development. See tools to help project affordable housing preservation, social equity and vulnerability, real estate markets, and heat vulnerability.

Educational curricula. Through the Scenario Planning Applications Network, several researchers have shared their scenario planning curricula.