Reflection and reflexivity are essential for navigating complexity and fostering meaningful change. Reflection allows us to learn from past experiences and apply those lessons to improve future practice, while reflexivity encourages us to assess how our thoughts and actions shape …
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Participatory action research (PAR) offers a practical and inclusive approach to tackling today’s complex challenges. By combining collaboration, critical reflection, and iterative cycles of inquiry and action, this approach helps create solutions that are both meaningful and sustainable. This post …
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It has been a year since the publication of “A guide to just transitions | He puka arataki whakawhitinga tika“. The guide aims to assist communities, regions and sectors in navigating periods of disruption and achieving fair outcomes. Reflecting on …
This post provides an introduction to an extended DPSIR (Driving Forces-Pressures-State-Impacts-Responses) framework, and looks to show how this can be used to more closely link the social and natural sciences to better help policy makers address complex problem situations. It …
Using a DPSIR framework to support good natural resource management and policy Read more »
There are four broad areas in which it is important to support capacity building to enhance the collaboration and collective action that underpin responsible natural resource management. First, people with expertise in social processes are needed at all levels (just …
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This post and inline presentation shine a light on methodologies that help us combine reflective practice and adaptive management. The post and presentation begin with some ideas and concepts that introduce adaptive management and social learning, and then move to …
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