Can We Know Better?

Chambers, Robert G.

doi:10.3362/9781780449449

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“…This fits with adaptation pathways scholarship, where "adaptive agency" is made reflexive through learning processes that involve critical reasoning (Pelling 2010). The best way to foster the capacity for critical reflection has been extensively considered in the design and facilitation of adult education (Mayo 1999) and international development (Chambers 2017). These literatures are often cited as a starting point for debates about critical reflection to overcome unequal power relations (For example, see Rao et al 2019 for an examination of gendered power relations).…”

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confidence: 80%

Enabling Reflexive Decision-Making Towards Transformative Adaptation

Perez

2020

Handbook of Climate Change Management

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Reflexive decision-making is posited as a step towards transformative adaptation. There is a wealth of literature on reflexivity and transformation, which this chapter summarizes in terms of the relationship between agency, adaptation pathways, and participatory development. The chapter begins by connecting these fields to different types of stakeholder engagement, before focusing on a change process called "transformative scenario planning." Discussions revolve around the alignment between this participatory process and transformative adaptation, which is illustrated using the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions project (the ASSAR project) as a case study. Reflexivity as a form of agency is explained and used to show how scenario planning creates change in theory and practice. Best practice principles are outlined according to their fit with the practicalities of designing a change process towards transformative adaptation. Regional comparisons are made based on literature authored by the ASSAR

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 80%

Enabling Reflexive Decision-Making Towards Transformative Adaptation

Perez

2020

Handbook of Climate Change Management

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“…The data has been collected in two stages 1 . The first stage comprised of participatory mapping exercise (Chambers, 2017); each session lasted between three to four hours, with four groups representing different sections of society:…”

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Connecting heritage, vulnerabilities and capacities through a participatory game

Chmutina

Tandon

Kalkhitashvili³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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“…Ground-truthing is an approach to data collection and analysis that attempts to validate aggregated information such as the outputs of a computer model, census and survey data, or population-level statistical information through more precise and often localized scales (Chambers, 2017; English, 2020). As applied in our work, ground-truthing is a structured process of dialogue facilitation that (a) relies on direct observation and engagement with community stakeholders to verify, refine, or challenge models derived by inference; and (b) uses scientific findings to structure community discourse on issues of interest or concern to communities.…”

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How to live in peace? Mapping the science of sustaining peace: A progress report.

Coleman¹,

Fisher²,

Fry³

et al. 2021

American Psychologist

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Despite good faith attempts by countless citizens, civil society, governments, and the international community, living in a sustainably peaceful community continues to be an elusive dream in much of our world. Among the challenges to sustaining peace is the fact that few scholars have studied enduringly peaceful societies, or have examined only narrow aspects of them, leaving our understanding of the necessary conditions, processes and policies fragmented, and deficient. This article provides a work-in-progress overview of a multidisciplinary, multimethod initiative, which aims to provide a holistic, evidence-based understanding of how peace can be sustained in societies. The Sustaining Peace Project, launched in 2014, uses complexity science as an integrative platform for synthesizing knowledge across disciplines, sectors and communities. This article introduces the multiple components of the project and shares preliminary findings. Public Significance StatementThis article introduces the Sustaining Peace Project, a multimethod, multidisciplinary initiative, which aims to provide a holistic, evidence-based understanding of how peace can be sustained in societies. It summarizes the lessons learned to date from the systematic study of sustainably peaceful societies and "peace systems," or clusters of peaceful societies, which combines methods from psychology, peace studies, and complexity science to offer both a parsimonious and comprehensive understanding of sustaining peace locally and globally.

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Can We Know Better?

Cited by 62 publications

References 48 publications

Enabling Reflexive Decision-Making Towards Transformative Adaptation

Enabling Reflexive Decision-Making Towards Transformative Adaptation

Connecting heritage, vulnerabilities and capacities through a participatory game

How to live in peace? Mapping the science of sustaining peace: A progress report.

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