Pathways for the utilization of visualization techniques in designing participatory natural resource policy and management.

• Visualizing data improves stakeholders' engagement in natural resource management. • It is common to use images for Forest, and Energy, industry, and infrastructure planning. • Images are used more in Land-use, landcover, landscape, and Sustainability studies. • In Agricultural, Urban, and Climate Change, interactive 3D views are most effective. • The most complicated visualizations were engaged more in Urban and Land-use Planning.