Challenges in Forming Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice for Solving Environmental Problems in Developing Countries

Matsumoto, Yuichi; Kasamatsu, Hiroki; Sakakibara, Masayuki

doi:10.1080/02604027.2021.2012878

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“…Another idea is that more licenses will be issued by the government if simplification of the process to obtain a license is implemented on the condition that miners must use alternative mercury-free technologies. With the existence of TDCoP (transdisciplinary communities of practices) groups that carry out transformative learning [ 74 ] in good mining practice, awareness of the dangers of mercury and environmental safety and health, it is hoped that public awareness will increase.…”

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“…With regard to the latter, the effects of illegal gold mining have the potential to cause environmental damage in the long term, taking the form of negative changes to the landscape, landslides, and erosion, as well as water pollution in/around mining sites. A number of studies have reported upon the contribution of ASGM to land degradation [ 19 , 42 , 75 ], river water pollution [ 18 , 74 , 76 , 77 ], and soil/sediment pollution [ 18 , 25 , 26 , 36 , 57 , 78 ], whose conditions do not meet established quality standards. Indonesia Government Regulation 82/2001 for mercury in river water is 0.002 mg/L and in drinking water or in the water supply it is 0.001 mg/L.…”

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Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A Narrative Literature Review

Meutia

Lumowa

Sakakibara

2022

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Indonesia is host to a long history of gold mining and is responsible for a significant contribution to world gold production. This is true not only with regard to large gold mining companies but also to small-scale mining groups comprised of people and enterprises that participate in the gold industry of Indonesia. More than two thousand gold mining locations exist in present day Indonesia. Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sites are spread out across thirty provinces in Indonesia, and have provided work opportunities and income for more than two million people. However, the majority of ASGM activities use rudimentary technologies that have serious impacts upon the environment, public health, and miners’ safety, which in turn generate socio-economic impacts for people residing around the mine sites. Moreover, many ASGMs are not licensed and operate illegally, meaning that they are immune to governmental regulation, and do not provide income to the regions and states via taxes. The possibility for more prudent management of ASGM operations could become a reality with the involvement and cooperation of all relevant parties, especially communities, local government, police, and NGOs.

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Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A Narrative Literature Review

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Lumowa

Sakakibara

2022

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“…The authors also stated that the literature on CoPs lacked recommendations on how to utilize CoPs to encourage system change and suggested that more primary research on the CoPs' functions and effects on system-level transformations was needed [92]. 2022) claimed that there were three barriers faced by CoPs to overcome in TDR: "barriers of indifference", where stakeholders abstain from participating due to disinterest in the problems; "barriers of position", where stakeholders do not collaborate within the CoPs due to internal differences in position; and "barriers of continuity", where the activities cease once researchers leave the CoPs [93]. Barriers of indifference occur when the stakeholder participation in CoPs is not enthusiastic; however, collaboration and knowledge development with stakeholders such as community inhabitants are critical when seeking to resolve environmental and sustainability issues [94].…”

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“…TDCoPs go through five stages: potential, coalescing, maturing, activity, and transformation [89]. During the potential stage, the participants share the purpose of the TDCoPs, collect the basic information from the diverse disciplines and build trust through dialog [93], which requires researchers to initially take the leading role and then gradually take a supporting role as the TDCoPs move into the transformation stage [93]. For instance, in the TDCoPs formed to deal with the ASGM issues, through dialog, (1) the miners and local community can discuss the health and socioeconomic problems they are facing and the traditional, cultural, and local knowledge unique to their living area; (2) the medical teams can share basic lay information on the general health of the community, the kind of support they can offer, the barriers they are facing, and knowledge on Hg-related health issues; (3) the private mining sectors can provide information on the issues between the ASGM miners and government officials, and especially those related to local laws, such as disputes over legislation and the permissions needed by government officials, miners, and mining companies; and (4) government officials can share knowledge about the official processes important to the ASGM profile.…”

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Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice to Resolve Health Problems in Southeast Asian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities

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Sakakibara

2022

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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has been a major part of people’s livelihood in the rural areas of many developing countries, including those in Southeast Asia (SEA). Nevertheless, because of the use of mercury, ASGM activities have significant local and global adverse impacts on the environment and ASGM community health. Although there have been many monodisciplinary projects by academic researchers and governments to solve the environmental and health problems in SEA ASGM communities, they have not been sufficient to solve the complex socioeconomic problems. This review first outlines the nature of the SEA ASGM activities and the consequent environmental, community health, and socioeconomic problems and then introduces an approach using transdisciplinary communities of practice that involves both academic and nonacademic participants to relieve these wicked ASGM problems and to improve the environmental governance and community health in ASGM communities in SEA.

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“…An emergent transformational approach (Anderson and McLachlan, 2016) in sustainability science (Miller et al, 2011) has surpassed the so-called knowledge deficit assumption (Howarth et al, 2022;Matsumoto et al, 2022). It posits the need for moving from knowledge to action in ways that engage the different voices and needs at stake (Grunwald, 2004;Tengö et al, 2014;Pereira et al, 2019).…”

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Food systems transformations in South America: Insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay

Juri

Norberg²,

Clark³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The wicked nature of sustainability challenges facing food systems demands intentional and synergistic actions at multiple scales and sectors. The Southern Cone of Latin America, with its historical legacy of “feeding the world,” presents interesting opportunities for generating insights into potential trajectories and processes for food system transformation. To foster such changes would require the development of collective understanding and agency to effectively realize purposeful and well-informed action toward desirable and sustainable food futures. This in turn demands the transdisciplinary engagement of academia, the private sector, government/policy-makers, community groups, and other institutions, as well as the broader society as food consumers. While the need for contextualized knowledge, priorities and definitions of what sustainable food systems change means is recognized, there is limited literature reporting these differences and critically reflecting on the role of knowledge brokers in knowledge co-production processes. The political nature of these issues requires arenas for dialogue and learning that are cross-sectoral and transcend knowledge generation. This paper presents a case study developed by SARAS Institute, a bridging organization based in Uruguay. This international community of practice co-designed a 3-year multi-stakeholder transdisciplinary process entitled “Knowledges on the Table.” We describe how the process was designed, structured, and facilitated around three phases, two analytical levels and through principles of knowledge co-production. The case study and its insights offer a model that could be useful to inform similar processes led by transdisciplinary communities of practice or bridging institutions in the early stages of transformative work. In itself, it also represents a unique approach to generate a language of collaboration, dialogue, and imagination informed by design skills and methods. While this is part of a longer-term process toward capitalizing on still-unfolding insights and coalitions, we hope that this example helps inspire similar initiatives to imagine, support, and realize contextualized sustainable food system transformations.

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Challenges in Forming Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice for Solving Environmental Problems in Developing Countries

Cited by 12 publications

References 57 publications

Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A Narrative Literature Review

Indonesian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining—A Narrative Literature Review

Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice to Resolve Health Problems in Southeast Asian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities

Food systems transformations in South America: Insights from a transdisciplinary process rooted in Uruguay

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