Identifying Regional Environmental and Sustainability Issues: Adoption of an Interdisciplinary Design Charrette Approach

Abstract

Charrettes are a useful tool to facilitate stakeholder discussion and generate useful end products to address regional issues. To identify regional environmental and sustainability issues, we held a series of interdisciplinary charrettes with stakeholders that shared a similar concern toward protecting the region. Outcomes included distinguishing exemplary sites representative of the issues on a base map and developing initial action items to address them. We present our lessons learned and provide recommendations to assist others in planning and implementing interdisciplinary charrettes.