Christina Prell

TL;DR: This paper asks how and why stakeholder analysis should be conducted for participatory natural resource management research, and proposes new tools and combinations of methods that can more effectively identify and categorise stakeholders and help understand their inter-relationships.

TL;DR: Social learning is increasingly becoming a normative goal in natural resource management and policy, but there remains little consensus over its meaning or theoretical basis as discussed by the authors. This lack of conceptual clarity has limited our capacity to assess whether social learning has occurred, and if so, what kind of learning has taken place, to what extent, between whom, when, and how.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study from the Peak District National Park in the United Kingdom, where they used social network analysis to inform stakeholder analysis, which helped them identify which individuals and categories of stakeholder played more central roles in the network and which were more peripheral.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three case studies at different scales that followed adaptive management processes, critically reflecting upon the role of stakeholder participation in each case, and show that a range of participatory mechanisms can be employed at different stages of the adaptive cycle, and can work together to create conditions for social learning and favorable outcomes for diverse stakeholders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a full overview of the field of social network analysis, including historical origins, common theoretical perspectives and frameworks; traditional and current analytical procedures and fundamental mathematical equations needed to get a foothold in the field.