Convergence, continuity, and community: a framework for enabling emerging leaders to build climate solutions in agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture

Birthisel, Sonja K.; Eastman, Brooke A.; Soucy, Alyssa; Paul, Manashi; Clements, R. S.; White, Alissa; Acquafredda, Michael P.; Errickson, W.; Zhu, Longhuan; Allen, Madeline; Mills, Sarah A.; Dimmig, Gordon; Dittmer, Kyle M.

doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02844-w

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“…Bring a diverse team of researchers and centering community needs as part of the research process (Birthisel et al, 2020;Lakhina et al, 2021).…”

Section: Participatory Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Transformational plausible solutions for complex problems (Birthisel et al, 2020;Lakhina et al, 2021).…”

Section: Participatory Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participatory convergence is a promising mode of inquiry to address anthropogenic climate change challenges. Early findings indicate a need for more explicit techniques for funding, planning, and incorporating participation at every stage of convergence research (Birthisel et al, 2020; Westerhoff et al, 2021). In coming years, more research is needed to establish the efficacy of participatory convergence in supporting meaningful water research and plausible water solutions in the anthropogenic climate change context.…”

Section: Participant‐driven Approaches To Taking Transformative Actio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, scholars in climate change and disaster science incorporate community and stakeholder participation in convergence research. Drawing from this recent research, we identify the emerging approach of participatory convergence (Birthisel et al, 2020; Lakhina et al, 2021; Bainbridge & Roco, 2015; Westerhoff et al, 2021).…”

Section: Participant‐driven Approaches To Taking Transformative Actio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In participatory convergence, a diverse team develops transformative solutions to complex problems through intensive integration across disciplines, communities, and organizations (Birthisel et al, 2020; Peek et al, 2020). Participatory convergence, like PAR, seeks an active engagement of participants as collaborators in the research process, interpreting and sharing findings, and supporting change (Birthisel et al, 2020; Lakhina et al, 2021).…”

Section: Participant‐driven Approaches To Taking Transformative Actio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Participatory approaches in water research: A review

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Participatory research approaches address a range of problems in water research, including the under-valuation of local knowledge, exclusion of marginalized people, preferential treatment of elite and expert perspectives, and extractive and exploitative research practices. Beyond this, a number of participatory approaches to water research are designed to empower participants, democratize knowledge production, improve decision-making, and help bring about new environmental futures. In this primer, we map participatory research approaches and explain how they have been applied to advance water research. Our review focuses on the following eight approaches: participatory action research, community-based participatory research, participatory rural appraisal, stakeholder research, participatory modeling, photovoice, citizen science, and sustainable future scenarios. We conclude by discussing a new approach, Participatory Convergence research, including how it builds from other approaches and its prospects to advance water research.

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“…Bring a diverse team of researchers and centering community needs as part of the research process (Birthisel et al, 2020;Lakhina et al, 2021).…”

Section: Participatory Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Transformational plausible solutions for complex problems (Birthisel et al, 2020;Lakhina et al, 2021).…”

Section: Participatory Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Participant‐driven Approaches To Taking Transformative Actio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Participant‐driven Approaches To Taking Transformative Actio...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Participant‐driven Approaches To Taking Transformative Actio...mentioning

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Participatory approaches in water research: A review

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Climate change in the context of whole-farming systems: opportunities for improved outreach

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Climate change poses a challenge to farming systems worldwide. However, existing research suggests that farmers and those providing outreach may have different climate change perspectives, and there is little understanding of how farmers prioritize climate change compared with other aspects of their farming system. To compare how farmers and outreach professionals in northern New England consider climate change within the context of whole-farming systems, we conducted mental modeling interviews with 33 farmers and 16 outreach professionals. Despite being primed to consider climate during the interviews, only 24% of farmers and 25% of outreach professionals included climate in their mental models. Key differences arose in both group’s perceptions of weather: outreach professionals focused on connections between good weather and biophysical factors, while farmers drew additional connections to factors like quality of life and overall farm success. Social factors including community well-being, public education, and farm success were significantly more likely to be included (P < 0.05), and in some cases were more influential, in farmer models compared to outreach professional models. We conclude that farmer participants did not perceive climate to be a central factor of their farming systems, and valued human and social dimensions more highly than outreach professionals perceived. These factors may warrant special consideration in efforts to make outreach meaningful to local contexts, along with framing climate change within its broader relationship to other farming system aspects. Interdisciplinary teams may be helpful in developing outreach approaches that fully contextualize climate change within farmers’ complex whole-farm management perspectives.

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