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Collaborative governance for climate change adaptation in Canada: experimenting with adaptive co-management
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In this article, the authors examined social relationships from a network perspective while initiating a collaborative multiactor initiative aimed to develop into adaptive co-management for climate change adaptation, an action research project undertaken in the Niagara region of Canada.Abstract:
The search for strategies to address ‘super wicked problems’ such as climate change is gaining urgency, and a collaborative governance approach, and adaptive co-management in particular, is increasingly recognized as one such strategy. However, the conditions for adaptive co-management to emerge and the resulting network structures and relational patterns remain unclear in the literature. To address these identified needs, this study examines social relationships from a network perspective while initiating a collaborative multiactor initiative aimed to develop into adaptive co-management for climate change adaptation, an action research project undertaken in the Niagara region of Canada. The project spanned 1 year, and a longitudinal analysis of participants’ networks and level of participation in the process was performed. Evidence of support for climate change adaptation from the process included the development of deliberative and adaptive responses to opportunities presented to the group and the development of a strong subgroup of participants where decision-making was centered. However, the complexity of the challenge of addressing climate change, funding constraints, competing initiatives, and the lack of common views among participants may have contributed to the group, highlighting the finding that beneficial network structural features and relational patterns are necessary but not sufficient condition for the development of an adaptive co-management process. The context of climate change adaptation may require a different social network structure and processes than other contexts for adaptive co-management to occur, and there may be limitations to adaptive co-management for dealing with super wicked problems.read more
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사회사업에서의 Participatory Action Research(PAR)와 Action Research(AR) 모델 적용 필요성에 관한 연구
TL;DR: In this article, participatory action research (PAR) is used to support participatory research in the field of action research, where the goal is to improve the performance of action-based research.
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Learning effects of interactive decision-making processes for climate change adaptation
TL;DR: In this article, a participatory decision-making process for climate change adaptation in the Niagara region, Canada, was investigated, and three types of learning were identified: cognitive learning, related to the acquisition of new or the structuring of existing knowledge; normative learning, which concerns a shift in viewpoints, values or paradigms, and relational learning, referring to an improved understanding of others' mindsets, enhanced trust and ability to cooperate.
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Connectivity and complex systems: learning from a multi-disciplinary perspective
Laura Turnbull,Marc-Thorsten Hütt,Andreas A. Ioannides,Stuart Kininmonth,Ronald E. Poeppl,Klement Tockner,Klement Tockner,Louise J. Bracken,Saskia Keesstra,Lichan Liu,Rens Masselink,Anthony J. Parsons +11 more
TL;DR: This review evaluates how a connectivity-based approach has generated new understanding of structural-functional relationships that characterise complex systems and proposes a ‘common toolbox’ underpinned by network-based approaches that can advance connectivity studies by overcoming existing constraints.
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Is Adaptive Co-management Delivering? Examining Relationships Between Collaboration, Learning and Outcomes in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Ryan Plummer,Ryan Plummer,Julia Baird,Angela Dzyundzyak,Derek Armitage,Örjan Bodin,Lisen Schultz +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined relationships among perceived processes and outcomes in four UNESCO biosphere reserves (BRs) and found that a better process is associated with more positive outcomes and that collaboration and learning make unique contributions to outcomes.
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