ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the applications of the Human Scale Development (HSD) methodology articulated around participatory workshops and the concepts of fundamental needs and satisfiers. It starts by presenting the levels and phases of HSD based projects and some adaptations of the methodology, particularly those aiming at addressing environmental sustainability. The chapter discusses the issues surrounding the organisation of HSD workshops, mainly recruitment of participants, the role of facilitators and the expected outcomes of HSD exercises in terms of emergence and empowerment. The HSD goals was to increase the understanding of the relationship between personal values and participation which aims at gathering two groups of people with different value orientations (extrinsic and intrinsic). The HSD understanding of the socio-economic system suggests the use of the matrix fails to unveil the interconnections of the natural environment with the characteristics of a specific group, community or society.
