Facing the adaptive challenge: practitioners' insights from negotiating resource crises in Minnesota

Blann, Kristen; Light, S.S.; Musumeci, Jo Ann

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511541957.014

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“…The confrontation of underlying assumptions, norms, and objectives and the changes in mental models and meaning were referred to as double-loop learning by Argyris (104) and applied in relation to ecosystem management by, e.g., Blann et al (105). In recent organizational literature, resilience (interpreted as the capacity for innovation and renewal) has been proposed as a key feature that allows industries to survive turbulent times and reorganize (106).…”

Section: Adaptive Management and Organizational Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, key individuals with strong leadership may catalyze opinion shifts (111,160), and creative teams and actor groups may emerge into a large connected community of practitioners who prepare a social-ecological system for change (105,158) and transform it into a new state as discussed below. Such fundamental change in social-ecological systems can occur rapidly (111).…”

Section: Social Memory Teams and Actor Groups As Sources Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Folke

Hahn

Olsson

et al. 2005

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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▪ Abstract We explore the social dimension that enables adaptive ecosystem-based management. The review concentrates on experiences of adaptive governance of social-ecological systems during periods of abrupt change (crisis) and investigates social sources of renewal and reorganization. Such governance connects individuals, organizations, agencies, and institutions at multiple organizational levels. Key persons provide leadership, trust, vision, meaning, and they help transform management organizations toward a learning environment. Adaptive governance systems often self-organize as social networks with teams and actor groups that draw on various knowledge systems and experiences for the development of a common understanding and policies. The emergence of “bridging organizations” seem to lower the costs of collaboration and conflict resolution, and enabling legislation and governmental policies can support self-organization while framing creativity for adaptive comanagement efforts. A resilient social-ecological system may make use of crisis as an opportunity to transform into a more desired state.

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Section: Adaptive Management and Organizational Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Memory Teams and Actor Groups As Sources Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Folke

Hahn

Olsson

et al. 2005

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

4,185

3,188

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“…Permaculture A recent systematic review organizes analysis around four strata, assessing permaculture as design system, best practices framework, worldview, and movement (Ferguson and Lovell 2014). Across these strata, permaculture offers a distinctive Ecology and Society 20(4): 39 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss4/art39/ perspective on social-ecological transition, with key principles that parallel or prefigure themes in sustainability-oriented scholarship, such as landscape multifunctionality, ecosystem mimicry, ecoagriculture, intervention ecology, and adaptive management (Nudds 1999, Blann et al 2003, Scherr and McNeely 2008, Lefroy 2009, Hobbs et al 2011, Ferguson and Lovell 2014. It is a direct antecedent to the international Transition Town movement that is receiving significant scholarly attention for its decentralized and populist approach to grassroots transition processes (e.g., Feola and Nunes 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Grassroots engagement with transition to sustainability: diversity and modes of participation in the international permaculture movement

Ferguson¹,

Lovell²

2015

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Grassroots networks and social movements are increasingly regarded as agents of change that can help respond to environmental degradation both by generating novel solutions to existing problems and influencing institutions toward more substantive responses. We examine permaculture, an international movement that, despite its broad international distribution and relatively high public profile, has received little systematic scrutiny in the scientific literature. We attempt to remedy that gap by conducting a broad international (though English-only) survey of 731 permaculture participants, and assessing the socio-demographic characteristics of the movement. The survey examined self-identified roles of permaculture participants and explored the relationships between those roles and socio-demographic factors race, gender, and socioeconomic status. The influence of structural factors on participant roles was examined by including multidimensional national indices development, inequality, and ecosystem vitality, for the 45 countries in the sample. Results showed the participation of women at or above parity (53%), while participation by race showed a white supermajority (96%). Multivariate regression demonstrated that race, gender, and socioeconomic status are shaping participation in distinct ways and that each interact with structural factors. The effects of gender on social roles varied with ecosystem vitality, with women scoring higher than men in countries with high levels of ecosystem vitality, and the reverse where ecosystem vitality was low. The observed effect of race on practice varied with national inequality, such that the scores of respondents of color were equivalent to white respondents in countries with the least inequality, but descended as inequality increased, while whites were unaffected. Different indicators of socioeconomic status depressed and amplified different dimensions of participation. Results point toward a theoretical framework that identifies multiple levels and sites through which socio-demographic factors shape participation in grassroots environmental action, and the outlines of such a framework are discussed.

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“…Various approaches to organisational learning have been applied in NREM research, including the theory of action perspective and related concepts (Argyris and Scho¨n 1978, Argyris 1990, Easterby-Smith et al 2000. Aspects of this approach have been applied in studies of co-management (Diduck et al 2005a), environmental assessment (EA) (Fitzpatrick 2006b, Hayward et al 2007, flood plain management (Diduck et al 2005b), and various other complex resource negotiations (Blann et al 2003). What is most pertinent to the discussion here is the framework regarding depth of learning.…”

Section: Tl Theory and The Broader Transformational Learning Landscapementioning

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Transformative learning theory, public involvement, and natural resource and environmental management

Diduck

Sinclair

Hostetler

et al. 2012

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper reviews studies of transformative learning through public involvement in natural resource and environmental management (NREM). It summarises evidence regarding instrumental, communicative, transformative and sustainability-oriented learning outcomes, and learning processes such as reflection, rational discourse and applying new frames of references in individual and social action. The paper discusses the implications for the design of NREM and public involvement, and presents a new framework connecting non-formal education, involvement in NREM, transformative learning and sustainability. The paper concludes with suggestions for promising future research, such as scaling up transformative learning in the context of NREM, including examining potential complementarities with leading models of social and organisational learning.

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Facing the adaptive challenge: practitioners' insights from negotiating resource crises in Minnesota

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Grassroots engagement with transition to sustainability: diversity and modes of participation in the international permaculture movement

Transformative learning theory, public involvement, and natural resource and environmental management

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