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Site: Learning for sustainabilitySocial learning
Publish Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 19:42:25 +1300
A number of new social learning sites and papers have been added to LfS. These include links to the lessons from the SLIM (Social Learning for the Integrated Management and sustainable use of water at catchment scale) and HarmoniCOP - Hamonising collaborative planning project..
Social marketing
Publish Date: Sat, 19 April 2008 19:42:25 +1300
A number of social marketing sites and papers have been added to LfS. These include links to community-based social marketing by Doug McKenzie-Mohr, the seven doors framework by Les Robinson, the key principles of persuasion and more.
Social research methods
Publish Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2008 19:42:25 +1300
Here are a number of sites designed to help utilise social science methods to help accomplish their goals. Some of the sites here cater for managers and policy makers by providing basic - but useful - information about social science concepts and methods. These sites can help guide the selection of the apprpriate tools to address specific issues. Other sites cater for social researchers looking for information on research areas such as systems thinking, contemporary approaches to managing participation, action research and the use of narrative.
Site award
Publish Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2008 19:42:25 +1300
Earlier this week (14 Jan) the Learning for Sustainability site won a gold award from the Web Builders, UK. A listing of their winners can be found at their site - http://www.thewebuilders.co.uk/Thewebuilders_Awards/index.shtml
Toolkits, checklists and guides for supporting community engagement and collective action
Publish Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2008 19:32:08 +1300
Worldwide, there is a wealth of experience in strengthening communities and creating opportunities for social learning and supporting collective action. If you have a specific problem then many of the following on-line guides on the subsequent pages in this section will provide ideas to address it. The general guides page provides links to guides that are developed generically to address issues such as participation and engagement. Similarly where lessons have been developed into checklists for use use by practitioners they are included from that page. Other pages here highlight the lessons that have emerged from researchers and practitioners in different sectors. These include lessons from the HIV/AIDS sector, public health, and protected natural areas. They are shown on their different pages to highlight the fact that each sector is looking at similar human dimensions practice change lessons, and that the more we can learn across sectors the better.
Jobs in environment and development
Publish Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:00:00 GMT
This page provides some key links for using the Internet to track down job vacancies and volunteering programmes in the fields of environment and development. Whatever your reason, if you've decided you want a job in this area, and you have access to the Internet then you can take advantage of a wide variety of employment-related information and resources you'll need to start, change or further your career. The following pages on this site provide links to a wide range of international career opportunities in organizations, NGOs, agencies and universities.
Capacity building, social capital and empowerment
Publish Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:00:00 GMT
This page links to information and practical approaches for those building capacity to support social or collaborative learning approaches.Capacity building is, of course, only meaningful when it refers to what it is planned to build capacity in. Here it is used to refer to building the capacity of those many individuals in agencies and communities that directly or indirectly take the lead in iniating and supporting the many social process strands that support a sustainably learning society.
Systems thinking
Publish Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2007 01:00:00 GMT
This page provides links to guides on systems thinking, including soft systems methodology (SSM). Systems thinking is an approach to integration that is based on the belief that the component parts of a system will act differently when isolated from the system's environment or other parts of the system. Standing in contrast to positivist and reductionist thinking, systems thinking sets out to view systems in a holistic manner. Consistent with systems philosophy, systems thinking concerns an understanding of a system by examining the linkages and interactions between the elements that comprise the whole of the system.
Interdisciplinary journals for environment, health and development
Publish Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 01:00:00 GMT
The following links provide access to a number of journals that publish papers on human dimensions research. Some of these journals include interdisciplinary and action-research based material.
Writing a Phd
Publish Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:00:00 GMT
A page of on-line resources for both research students and their supervisors. Topics covered include developing your supervisory team as well as structuring and writing your thesis or dissertation. Special attention is paid to using action research for theses. Some resources are also included to help thesis examiners, and students who want to see what examiners may be looking for.
Integration - doing transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary science
Publish Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:00:00 GMT
The links on this page point first to the emerging resources that are documenting the lessons from integration in practice, and the second to the growing body of theory that points to the need for these new science approaches (sustainability science, post-normal science, Mode II science, etc.).
Empowerment evaluation
Publish Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:00:00 GMT
This overview page reminds us that evaluation can play many roles. It can provide accountability to managers, funders and stakeholders, it can provide lessons to improve the program, and it can build the capacity of stakeholders to reflect, analyse and take action.
RSS feed (July 2007)
Publish Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:00:00 GMT
An RSS feed was developed to provide site updates.
Links to manuals, checklists and tools 
