Resonances: List and Definitions

A set of “resonances”, factors describing what people care about and are willing to express, is presented along with applications relating to water and environmental management in New Zealand and in the USA. The resonances describe commonly encountered preferences, beliefs, needs, and motivations expressed in individual and/or group narratives. In addition to their utility for text analyses, we suggest that our resonances could also be used, possibly in real-time and aided by AI tools, to plan, track progress, facilitate, and enhance critical reflective thinking for participatory modeling and stakeholder/community engagement processes. The resonances could also be used to more transparently document, understand, and improve decision-making for SES resource and environmental issues over longer-term periods, even with changes in decision actors and redistributions of decision powers.This work is copyrighted by authors Pierre D. Glynn, Maria Estefania Santamaria Cerrutti, Kristan Cockerill, Simone A. Glynn, Paul A. White, Jack K. Drummond and Jane Penton and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This work supports an article (DOI: 10.1080/1943815X.2026.2658596) also under license CC BY-NC published in the Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences entitled “Resonances to Improve Environmental and Natural Resources Management” and copyrighted by the same authors as listed above. The above statement supersedes any Figshare.com-supplied licensing.