Revisiting the knowledge exchange train: scaling up dialogue and partnering for participatory regional planning

Mendoza, Elsa; Perz, Stephen G.; Silva, Sonaira Souza da; Brown, I. Foster; Pinheiro, Paula Soares

doi:10.1080/09640568.2012.746936

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“…This has been applied in numerous contexts [38,39]. It is established in previous work on conservation and development as a key form of engagement between researchers and stakeholders [40,41], including in the Amazon [42,43]. Knowledge exchange is especially valuable among diverse stakeholders with different knowledge funds.…”

Section: Approaches To Participatory Action Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The "Knowledge Exchange Train" (KET) was developed to meet public demand for information about changes in the MAP frontier and to provide a platform for participatory regional environmental planning [43,108]. The basic model of the KET was to scale up knowledge exchange: instead of having one researcher or research team engage in knowledge exchange with stakeholders in one location, the KET proposed to bring together representatives of multiple research teams who would travel together to multiple communities and towns, making stops as if at train stations along a railway line, to hold workshops with diverse local stakeholders.…”

Section: The Knowledge Exchange Trainmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the MAP frontier, Mini-MAP Highways (MMH) organized a series of KETs over a period of roughly a decade, from 2006 to 2016, several with support from the University of Florida [43,108]. In each KET, MMH coordinators worked with local collaborators in various towns to identify locations for workshops.…”

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“…Between 2006 and 2016, MMH implemented five different KETs in the MAP frontier. Each KET involved 8-10 different research projects, visited 8-10 different towns, and reached 300-500 people, running from 7-14 days [43]. In each case, KET teams left posters with local communities, which permitted subsequent dissemination, whether via local schools or local governments.…”

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Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon

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Research that features participation and action orientation, such as participatory action research (PAR), is especially valuable in contexts where there is rapid change, high social inequality, and great uncertainty about the future, which drives stakeholder demands for information to support their goals. The Amazon offers such a context, for it is a region where diverse stakeholders engage in contestation over environmental governance to address issues such as climate change to achieve conservation and sustainable development. Stakeholder mobilization has changed the terms by which research is conducted, from the definition of priority topics to the application of findings. Due to stakeholder mobilization, more and more research in the Amazon is now necessarily participatory, for stakeholders routinely issue demands about how the research will be conducted and for what purpose. In this paper, we provide an overview of several experiences of implementing methods such as PAR by different teams or networks, focusing on the complementary contributions of outside researchers and local stakeholders. The heart of the paper reports on three broad types of experiences focusing on conservation and development in the Amazon: (1) participatory data collection for co-production of knowledge for environmental governance, (2) inclusive environmental monitoring systems, and (3) innovative models of knowledge exchange to facilitate collective action. Within each type, we report multiple experiences with distinct approaches to participation and action in research. These experiences constitute models that can be replicated in other places for broader impact to support conservation and development.

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Section: The Knowledge Exchange Trainmentioning

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“…Multiple-stakeholder dialogues that develop regional definitions for environmental and social performance while providing input to the design of financial instruments to support improvements in this performance could help to engage the farm sectors and support their transition to sustainable practices. Participatory regional planning processes have succeeded in influencing policies, planning and programmes in forest frontiers [64][65][66]; multiple-stakeholder processes are central to the success thus far of the commodity roundtables. In this context, the GCF, in which representatives from state/provincial governments, civil society and the private sector have been collaborating for 5 years, represents one possible forum for facilitating such dialogues and taking them to scale across several jurisdictions and nations [46].…”

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Responding to climate change and the global land crisis: REDD+, market transformation and low-emissions rural development

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Climate change and rapidly escalating global demand for food, fuel, fibre and feed present seemingly contradictory challenges to humanity. Can greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from land-use, more than one-fourth of the global total, decline as growth in land-based production accelerates? This review examines the status of two major international initiatives that are designed to address different aspects of this challenge. REDD+ is an emerging policy framework for providing incentives to tropical nations and states that reduce their GHG emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. Market transformation, best represented by agricultural commodity roundtables, seeks to exclude unsustainable farmers from commodity markets through international social and environmental standards for farmers and processors. These global initiatives could potentially become synergistically integrated through (i) a shared approach for measuring and favouring high environmental and social performance of land use across entire jurisdictions and (ii) stronger links with the domestic policies, finance and laws in the jurisdictions where agricultural expansion is moving into forests. To achieve scale, the principles of REDD+ and sustainable farming systems must be embedded in domestic low-emission rural development models capable of garnering support across multiple constituencies. We illustrate this potential with the case of Mato Grosso State in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Scientists and Stakeholders, Data and Diagnostics: Crossing Boundaries for Modeling the Impacts of Highway Paving in a Tri-national Frontier in the Amazon

Perz

Selaya

Muñoz‐Carpena

et al. 2019

Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science

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Revisiting the knowledge exchange train: scaling up dialogue and partnering for participatory regional planning

Cited by 9 publications

References 41 publications

Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon

Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon

Responding to climate change and the global land crisis: REDD+, market transformation and low-emissions rural development

Scientists and Stakeholders, Data and Diagnostics: Crossing Boundaries for Modeling the Impacts of Highway Paving in a Tri-national Frontier in the Amazon

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