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Fostering collabora...
Fostering collaboration for knowledge and action in disaster management in South Africa
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Sitas, Nadia (author)
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- Reyers, Belinda (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre,Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
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Cundill, Georgina (author)
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Prozesky, Heidi E. (author)
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Nel, Jeanne L. (author)
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Esler, Karen J. (author)
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- Elsevier BV, 2016
- 2016
- English.
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In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. - : Elsevier BV. - 1877-3435 .- 1877-3443. ; 19, s. 94-102
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- Engaging diverse stakeholders in collaborative processes to integrate environmental information into decision making is important, but challenging. It requires working at and across the boundaries between knowledge types - a complex milieu of different value systems, norms, and mental models - and multiple stakeholder-engagement processes which facilitate knowledge exchange and co-production. Using a qualitative, inductive approach, we analysed perceptions and outputs of a transdisciplinary project which aimed to generate new knowledge, awareness and action for ecosystem-based disaster management in South Africa. Several obstacles that could potentially undermine the project's objectives were identified, including: preconceived assumptions; entrenched disciplinary thinking; and confusing terminology. Enabling factors included efforts to ensure project co-creation and the use of knowledge brokers in promoting systems thinking that is grounded in practice.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
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