摘要：Narratives that explore uncertain events are central to a variety of future-oriented approaches ranging from planningto community visioning. Techniques to create interesting narratives, however, have been overlooked in the peer-reviewedenvironmental foresight literature. We describe a participatory, multidimensional, pragmatic technique to generate qualitativeforesight ("scenario") narratives. We applied this technique in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia during 11 workshopsconducted in 5 countries and 1 regional setting. To improve consideration of systemic connections, narratives were sharedbetween the six settings, allowing participants to understanding cross-scale enablers and inhibitors of desired developmentoutcomes. A second innovative feature is elaboration of character-oriented narratives. We discuss how the technique respondsto ongoing methodological challenges of critical inquiry, policy salience, and agency
