Growing Deeper Roots: Nature as a Stakeholder in Software-intensive Systems

Paper in proceeding, 2025

Increased environmental challenges require explicitly including Nature as a stakeholder in software-intensive systems development. Currently, we are lacking a structured representation of the aspects of Nature as a stakeholder. Consequently, we continue to ignore specifically non-human stakeholders and their needs. We use design science research to contribute an artifact (the "Nature as a Stakeholder"taxonomy) developed in two iterations. The artifact can serve as reference taxonomy for Nature-aware development so we are accounting for environmental externalities.