Net-Map: Collecting Social Network Data and Facilitating Network Learning through Participatory Influence Network Mapping

Schiffer, Eva; Hauck, Jennifer

doi:10.1177/1525822x10374798

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“…A socio-institutional network mapping (SNM) exercise was conducted using NetMap, a participatory mapping tool developed by Schiffer and Hauck (2010), which allows for visualization of complex formal and informal social networks, identifying the goals and influence of different types of actors, and describing the linkages among them. SNM has been extensively used in natural resource management (Bodin and Crona 2009;Stein et al 2011) and is being progressively applied in climate change adaptation (Aberman et al 2011).…”

Section: Implementing Adaptation Measures: Actors Institutions and Imentioning

confidence: 99%

How can irrigated agriculture adapt to climate change? Insights from the Guadiana Basin in Spain

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Climate change is already affecting many natural systems and human environments worldwide, like the semiarid Guadiana Basin in Spain. This paper illustrates a systematic analysis of climate change adaptation in the Guadiana irrigation farming region. The study applies a solution-oriented diagnostic framework structured along a series of sequential analytical steps. An initial stage integrates economic and hydrologic modeling to evaluate the effects of climate change on the agriculture and water sectors. Next, adaptation measures are identified and prioritized through a stakeholder-based multi-criteria analysis.Finally, a social network analysis identifies key actors and their relationships in climate change adaptation. The study shows that under a severe climate change scenario, water availability could be substantially decreased and drought occurrence will augment. In consequence, farmers will adapt their crops to a lesser amount of water and income gains will diminish, particularly for smallholder farms. Among the various adaptation measures considered, those related to private farming (new crop varieties and modern irrigation technologies) are ranked highest, whereas publicfunded hard measures (reservoirs) are lowest and public soft measures (insurance) are ranked middle. In addition, stakeholders highlighted that the most relevant criteria for selecting adaptation plans are environmental protection, financial feasibility and employment creation. Nonetheless, the social network analysis evidenced the need to strengthen the links among the different stakeholder groups to facilitate the implementation of adaptation processes. In sum, the diagnostic framework applied in this research can be considered a valuable tool for guiding and supporting decision making in climate change adaptation and communicating scientific results.

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Section: Implementing Adaptation Measures: Actors Institutions and Imentioning

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How can irrigated agriculture adapt to climate change? Insights from the Guadiana Basin in Spain

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“…In CiVi. net, a new tool for participatory social network analysis, called Net-Map (Schiffer and Hauck 2010), allowed qualitative data based on interviews about establishing environmental management schemes to be jointly analyzed and visualized in the form of network maps by both researchers and participants. This joint elaboration of the network map with immediate visible results built a common understanding of the problem while granting participants a chance to reflect on the network in real time.…”

Section: Enabling Action Research At the Science-civil Society Interfacementioning

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Community-based management of environmental challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Delgado-Serrano¹,

Mistry²,

Matzdorf³

et al. 2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. This Special Feature gathers the results of five research projects funded by the 7th Research Framework Program of the European Union and aims to identify successful cases of community-based management of environmental challenges in Latin America. The funding scheme, Research for the benefit of Civil Society Organizations, fostered innovative research approaches between civil society and research organizations. More than 20 field sites have been explored, and issues such as trade-offs between conservation and development, scientific versus local knowledge, social learning, ecosystem services, community owned solutions, scaling-up and scalingout strategies, the influence of context and actors in effective environmental management and governance, and the conflicts of interests around natural resources have been addressed. Based on our experiences as project coordinators, in this editorial we reflect on some of the important lessons gained for research praxis and impact, focusing on knowledge of governance models and their scaling-out and scaling-up, and on methods and tools to enable action research at the science-civil society interface. The results highlight the richness of community-based management experiences that exist in Latin America and the diversity of approaches to encourage the sustainable community-based management of environmental challenges.

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“…PSNA engages actors (who may represent organisations) in workshops to co-create a representation of a network (for example by drawing symbols or writing names on paper and then connecting them using lines) and has been widely used in relation to health service issues and natural resource utilisation and management [46,[48][49][50][51]. PSNA can increase the understanding of a social network beyond that of purely structure-driven aspects, to include relationships between incumbent actors (in the case presented here, water infrastructure providers such as water companies) and new entrants (in this case of RWH infrastructure innovators), as well as the plethora of other organisations that may constitute a network.…”

Section: Social Network Construction and Analysismentioning

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Rainwater Harvesting and Social Networks: Visualising Interactions for Niche Governance, Resilience and Sustainability

Ward

Butler

2016

Water

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Visualising interactions across urban water systems to explore transition and change processes requires the development of methods and models at different scales. This paper contributes a model representing the network interactions of rainwater harvesting (RWH) infrastructure innovators and other organisations in the UK RWH niche to identify how resilience and sustainability feature within niche governance in practice. The RWH network interaction model was constructed using a modified participatory social network analysis (SNA). The SNA was further analysed through the application of a two-part analytical framework based on niche management and the safe, resilient and sustainable ('Safe and SuRe') framework. Weak interactions between some RWH infrastructure innovators and other organisations highlighted reliance on a limited number of persuaders to influence the regime and landscape, which were underrepresented. Features from niche creation and management were exhibited by the RWH network interaction model, though some observed characteristics were not represented. Additional Safe and SuRe features were identified covering diverse innovation, responsivity, no protection, unconverged expectations, primary influencers, polycentric or adaptive governance and multiple learning-types. These features enable RWH infrastructure innovators and other organisations to reflect on improving resilience and sustainability, though further research in other sectors would be useful to verify and validate observation of the seven features.

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Net-Map: Collecting Social Network Data and Facilitating Network Learning through Participatory Influence Network Mapping

Cited by 239 publications

References 9 publications

How can irrigated agriculture adapt to climate change? Insights from the Guadiana Basin in Spain

How can irrigated agriculture adapt to climate change? Insights from the Guadiana Basin in Spain

Community-based management of environmental challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rainwater Harvesting and Social Networks: Visualising Interactions for Niche Governance, Resilience and Sustainability

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