Abstract
Abstract A landscape simulation was designed and tested in Viengkham, a mountainous district in the north of Lao PDR. This social learning process was introduced by researchers affiliated with national research institutions to improve land use planning practices and increase the ownership of local people in the planning process. Twelve members of the village land management committees participated in the role play called “PLUP Fiction,” which is part of a stepwise process of participatory land use planning (PLUP). This article introduces the principles of land zoning, the sequence of events presented during the role play session, and the lessons learned from a series of experiments conducted in remote upland villages. The villagers gained an increased understanding of the issues at stake during a zoning process, thus demonstrating the relevance of this learning simulation tool. They were able to explore different zoning options, assess their respective advantages and constraints, and gradually improve the...
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Twelve members of the village land management committees participated in the role play called ‘‘PLUP Fiction,’’ which is part of a stepwise process of participatory land use planning (PLUP)
Summary
The study site is located at the border of Nam Et–Phou Loey National Park in Viengkham District, Luang Prabang Province (Figure 1). In 2010, PLUP Fiction role play was introduced in the 6 villages of the Muongmuay kumban. PLUP Fiction does not explicitly refer to land management at the kumban level, it trained members of the VLMCs to manage their own village landscape. Some of them dealt with higher-level land management issues as representatives of their village at the village cluster land management committee. 2 villages in this kumban had previously experienced LUP in 2006. By 2009, nothing remained of this LUP experience conducted by the district authorities with the support of a development project, except for a wooden board with a painted land use map at the entrance to Bouammi village. All written records and documentation had disappeared, and only a few people had a vague memory of a mapping exercise having taken place in their village
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