Creating and Managing Interorganizational Learning Networks To Achieve Sustainable Ecosystem Management

Manring, Susan L.

doi:10.1177/1086026607305738

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“…Westley and Vredenburg 1997, Woolcock and Narayan 2000, Olsson et al 2004, Ernstson 2008, Olsson et al 2006, Manring 2007 Create and protect safe spaces for interaction. Seek ways to bring all parties to respect the perspectives of all sides.…”

Section: Institutional Entrepreneurship: Matching Strategies To Oppormentioning

confidence: 99%

A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

Westley¹,

Tjörnbo²,

Schultz³

et al. 2013

E&S

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ABSTRACT. We reviewed the literature on leadership in linked social-ecological systems and combined it with the literature on institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems to develop a new theory of transformative agency in linked socialecological systems. Although there is evidence of the importance of strategic agency in introducing innovation and transforming approaches to management and governance of such systems, there is no coherent theory to explain the wide diversity of strategies identified. Using Holling's adaptive cycle as a model of phases present in innovation and transformation of resilient socialecological systems, overlaid by Dorado's model of opportunity context (opaque, hazy, transparent) in complex adaptive systems, we propose a more coherent theory of strategic agency, which links particular strategies, on the part of transformative agents, to phases of system change.

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Section: Institutional Entrepreneurship: Matching Strategies To Oppormentioning

confidence: 99%

A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

Westley¹,

Tjörnbo²,

Schultz³

et al. 2013

E&S

604

490

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“…Key persons can play pivotal roles in such learning processes including providing leadership, building trust, developing visions, and sense-making (Westley 2002;Olsson et al 2004;Huitema and Meijerink 2009;Gutiérrez et al 2011). These individuals can be important brokers for connecting people and networks (Bebbington 1997;Crona 2006;Ernstson et al 2010) and also play a key role as nodes in learning networks (Manring 2007).…”

Section: Connecting the Two: The Role Of Agency In Transformationmentioning

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Westley

Olsson

Folke

et al. 2011

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This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating shifts and largescale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in. Large-scale transformations in information technology, nano-and biotechnology, and new energy systems have the potential to significantly improve our lives; but if, in framing them, our globalized society fails to consider the capacity of the biosphere, there is a risk that unsustainable development pathways may be reinforced. Current institutional arrangements, including the lack of incentives for the private sector to innovate for sustainability, and the lags inherent in the path dependent nature of innovation, contribute to lock-in, as does our incapacity to easily grasp the interactions implicit in complex problems, referred to here as the ingenuity gap. Nonetheless, promising social and technical innovations with potential to change unsustainable trajectories need to be nurtured and connected to broad institutional resources and responses. In parallel, institutional entrepreneurs can work to reduce the resilience of dominant institutional systems and position viable shadow alternatives and niche regimes.

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“…Evaluation of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research focuses on participative process es and knowledge integration (Nowotny et al 2001, Pohl andHirsch Hadorn 2006), which are important for change processes (Manring 2007) and the generation of target and transformation knowledge (Hennen et al 2004, Pohl andHirsch Hadorn 2006, p. 35). These qualitative concepts (table 1, p. 109) aim to contribute to learning processes in particular.…”

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Evaluating Research beyond Scientific ImpactHow to Include Criteria for Productive Interactions and Impact on Practice and Society

Wolf

Lindenthal

Szerencsits

et al. 2013

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

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Currently, established research evaluation focuses on scientific impact – that is, the impact of research on science itself. We discuss extending research evaluation to cover productive interactions and the impact of research on practice and society. The results are based on interviews with scientists from (organic) agriculture and a review of the literature on broader/social/societal impact assessment and the evaluation of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. There is broad agreement about what activities and impacts of research are relevant for such an evaluation. However, the extension of research evaluation is hampered by a lack of easily usable data. To reduce the effort involved in data collection, the usability of existing documentation procedures (e.g., proposals and reports for research funding) needs to be increased. We propose a structured database for the evaluation of scientists, projects, programmes and institutions, one that will require little additional effort beyond existing reporting require ments.

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Creating and Managing Interorganizational Learning Networks To Achieve Sustainable Ecosystem Management

Cited by 78 publications

References 43 publications

A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Evaluating Research beyond Scientific ImpactHow to Include Criteria for Productive Interactions and Impact on Practice and Society

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