Although the axes selected were generally
in line with the expressed preferences of the participants, in one
instance, a potential choice for one of the axes proposed by the participants
in the sheep workshop, was rejected by the researchers on the
grounds that it had the wrong properties to be an effective axis. The resultant
scenarios therefore were not developed around this participant
proposed axis. The specific proposal in the case study was ‘climate
change’, a driver that was considered in the scenario development,
but one that was not accorded the particular status of an axis