Learning About Interdependencies and Dynamics

Daré, William’s; Paassen, Annemarie van; Ducrot, Raphaèle; Mathevet, Raphaël; Queste, Jérôme; Trébuil, Guy; Barnaud, Cécile; Lagabrielle, Erwann

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8557-0_10

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“…The individual mental models that are used to construct shared mental models of an organization coalesce, thereby modifying the perception of the organization and transforming organizational values and paradigms. In turn, this modifies the environment of the individuals and affects their own mental models (Daré et al, 2014). As a result, the act of model cocreation is, in itself, an act of knowledge construction at both the single and double loop learning levels.…”

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Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job

Voinov

Jenni

Gray

et al. 2018

Environmental Modelling & Software

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Various tools and methods are used in participatory modelling, at different stages of the process and for different purposes. The diversity of tools and methods can create challenges for stakeholders and modelers when selecting the ones most appropriate for their projects. We offer a systematic overview, assessment, and categorization of methods to assist modelers and stakeholders with their choices and decisions. Most available literature provides little justification or information on the reasons for the use of particular methods or tools in a given study. In most of the cases, it seems that the prior experience and skills of the modelers had a dominant effect on the selection of the methods used. While we have not found any real evidence of this approach being wrong, we do think that putting more thought into the method selection process and choosing the most appropriate method for the project can produce better results. Based on expert opinion and a survey of modelers engaged in participatory processes, we offer practical guidelines to improve decisions about method selection at different stages of the participatory modeling process.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job

Voinov

Jenni

Gray

et al. 2018

Environmental Modelling & Software

335

247

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“…Role-playing games, commonly used in ComMod, have been referred to as one of the most effective ways to convey complexity (Duke 1974). They increase people's awareness of the multiple interdependencies of the system of which they are part (Barnaud et al 2007, Mathevet et al 2007, Daré et al 2014. A role-playing game highlighting ES dynamics and related social interdependencies could therefore contribute to increasing people's awareness of their social interdependencies and thereby influence their willingness to engage in a collective process.…”

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“…• Evaluating the effects of a participatory process is challenging because these effects can range from learning to decision making and action, individually and collectively (Daré et al 2014). In the case of ES, it would be particularly interesting to assess the added value of the ES concept in the deliberative process, i.e., to find out whether or not the ES lens fostered collective action and framed it in ways that include ecological processes that would have been neglected otherwise, by revealing hidden social interdependencies, or by including new stakeholders in the action arena.…”

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Ecosystem services, social interdependencies, and collective action: a conceptual framework

Barnaud¹,

Corbera²,

Muradian³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. The governance of ecosystem services (ES) has been predominantly thought of in terms of market or state-based instruments. Comparatively, collective action mechanisms have rarely been considered. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a conceptual framework that brings together ES, social interdependencies, and collective action thinking. We use an ES conceptual lens to highlight social interdependencies among people so as to reflect on existing or potential collective actions among them. This framework can also contribute to increasing people's awareness of their mutual interdependencies and thereby fostering, framing, or enriching collective action, in ways that take into account the diversity and complexity of ecological processes underlying human activities. Our approach can contribute in particular to agroecological transitions that require landscape level innovations and coordination mechanisms among land users and managers. The framework distinguishes three types of social interdependencies: (i) between ES beneficiaries and ES providers, (ii) among beneficiaries, and (iii) among providers. These social interdependencies are in turn analyzed according to four main dimensions that are critical for collective action: (i) cognitive framing of interdependencies, (ii) levels of organization, (iii) formal and informal institutions, and (iv) power relations. Finally, we propose a strategy to turn this framework into action in contexts of participatory action research, a strategy grounded on a number of methodological principles and tools that convey complexity and increase people's awareness of interdependencies in agrarian social-ecological systems.

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“…In the context of participatory modeling, Daré et al (2013) discussed how learning to deal with systemic interdependencies (as in trade-offs) demands a process through which diverse stakeholders, through communicative action (Habermas 1984) can reach collective action. This process inevitably involves conflicts of interests and power plays that need to be considered .…”

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Learning about social-ecological trade-offs

Galafassi¹,

Daw²,

Munyi³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. Trade-offs are manifestations of the complex dynamics in interdependent social-ecological systems. Addressing tradeoffs involves challenges of perception due to the dynamics of interdependence. We outline the challenges associated with addressing trade-offs and analyze knowledge coproduction as a practice that may contribute to tackling trade-offs in social-ecological systems. We discuss this through a case study in coastal Kenya in which an iterative knowledge coproduction process was facilitated to reveal social-ecological trade-offs in the face of ecological and socioeconomic change. Representatives of communities, government, and NGOs attended two integrative workshops in which methods derived from systems thinking, dialogue, participatory modeling, and scenarios were applied to encourage participants to engage and evaluate trade-offs. Based on process observation and interviews with participants and scientists, our analysis suggests that this process lead to increased appreciation of interdependences and the way in which trade-offs emerge from complex dynamics of interdependent factors. The process seemed to provoke a reflection of knowledge assumptions and narratives, and management goals for the social-ecological system. We also discuss how stakeholders link these insights to their practices.

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Learning About Interdependencies and Dynamics

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Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job

Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job

Ecosystem services, social interdependencies, and collective action: a conceptual framework

Learning about social-ecological trade-offs

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