Can sense-making tools inform adaptation policy? A practitioner&amp;#8217;s perspective

Milne, Kyla M. G.

doi:10.5751/es-06791-200166

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“…Or perhaps it is related to questions about what exactly the micronarratives are (narrative or opinion?) and what purpose do they serve (Milne 2015). The nature and purpose of micronarratives in this approach has not been clearly articulated.…”

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“…The paper by Milne (2015) presents the reactions of a Canadian policy maker to the project, after joining the project late in its life.…”

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“…Milne (2015) highlights how different policy perspectives (framings) differentially enable and constrain policy analysts' engagement with complex problems such as climate change: how they are thus oriented to defining problems and finding solutions and how receptive they might then be to the type of analyses presented in this special feature. Lynam and Fletcher (2015) adopt a framing and theoretical model, the transtheoretical or stages-of-change model (Prochaska and DiClemente 1986), which is oriented to individuals as adaptors and hence leads to adaptation solutions oriented to individuals.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The original idea behind this project was to provide multiple perspectives on adaptation to climate change: different theories and methods applied to the different perspectives of diverse individuals reflected in the data. But as Milne (2015) so clearly points out, what are we to do with all these perspectives when a great deal of policy and of society is oriented to a single, clear, and certain truth? How does a scientific endeavor that appreciates the effects of framing engage with a society that does not?…”

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Making sense of climate change: orientations to adaptation

Lynam

Walker

2016

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“…The paper by Milne (2015) presents the reactions of a Canadian policy maker to the project, after joining the project late in its life.…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: What We Have Learnedmentioning

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Making sense of climate change: orientations to adaptation

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Walker

2016

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“…Complexity theory provides a potentially useful orientation to understanding and then acting within the emergent flux of representations, positions, and actions to achieve desirable social outcomes in relation to climate change adaptation (Australian Public Services Commission 2007b, Milne 2015. However, to work with this sort of complex system, we need to capture snapshots of the experiences, conversations, utterances, or associations of actors within it as they shift, chimera-like, through time or among different social groups.…”

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Sensemaking: a complexity perspective

Lynam¹,

Fletcher²

2015

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ABSTRACT. Our intent was to provide a methodological overview of the primary data collection process in support of the other articles in this special issue. We documented and illustrated the use of a data collection and analysis suite, SenseMaker, that was designed to collect and work with narrative fragments. The approach presented adds a new and inherently mixed tool to the mixed methods toolbox. Despite its novelty and potential utility, little has been written in the academic literature on the application of SenseMaker to complex problems. To the best of our knowledge, the approach has not been used in relation to climate change or climate change adaptation and has not been presented in the mixed methods literature. We sought to contribute to filling this gap through describing the approach used to generate the data that underpin the articles in this special feature. Our purpose was to illustrate some of the potential and most notable challenges of using the SenseMaker data collection and analysis process in a complex domain through examining adaptation to climate change. Our overview was not exhaustive but rather sought to highlight capabilities and challenges through examining experiences of adaptation from a stages of change perspective. SenseMaker provides a remarkably powerful tool for the capture of micronarratives of complex phenomena such as climate change. The capacity to have respondents interpret, i.e., make sense of, their own narratives is an important innovation that provides one plausible solution to the problem of analysts coding narratives. Analytically, however, SenseMaker is relatively weak for those seeking strong statistical support for analyses and provides no capability for analyzing the narratives themselves.

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Sense‐making, sensemaking and sense making—A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of literature in information science and education: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Urquhart,

Cheuk,

Lam

et al. 2024

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Sense‐making, sensemaking, and sense making are terms used in different disciplines. Similarities of usage seem unclear. (1) to examine the concepts used in different approaches to sense‐making/sensemaking/sense making; (2) to identify, classify and synthesize recent studies relevant to information science, as well as similar group on sensemaking in education research; (3) to reflect on future directions for sense‐making/sensemaking methodology in information science. The objectives were to retrieve, examine, classify and perform meta‐synthesis on sense‐making/sensemaking studies in both information science and education research. The review used systematic review principles, with selection criteria for case studies for examination in both information science and education sets. The final meta‐synthesis used a meta‐ethnographic approach, together with findings of recent overviews on organizational sensemaking, and other information science reviews. Qualitative sense‐making studies in information science often used Dervin's SMM (sense‐making methodology) and studies in organizations and education frequently used Weick's organizational sensemaking. Different mixed methods approaches were identified. Sense‐making is actively used in research and practice in information science and knowledge management. Using a coherent sense‐making methodology helps and dialogic principles are useful in planning, data collection and analysis. Individual and collective sense‐making are important to information science.

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Can sense-making tools inform adaptation policy? A practitioner’s perspective

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Making sense of climate change: orientations to adaptation

Making sense of climate change: orientations to adaptation

Sensemaking: a complexity perspective

Sense‐making, sensemaking and sense making—A systematic review and meta‐synthesis of literature in information science and education: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

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