Socially robust knowledge in coastal projects

Seijger, Chris; Otter, Henriëtte; Tatenhove, J.P.M. van; Dewulf, Geert P.M.R.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.03.004

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“…Such an analysis is devoted to the question of who has the power to relate humans and nature in what ways. Normally, this task is performed by scientists, policy-makers and other organisations such as NGOs in the context of conventional modes of environmental management (De Jong 2016; Seijger et al 2016). Facilitating participation of individual citizens and local communities is a more challenging task, however, and it is necessary to reflect on the balance of power among and within stakeholder groups and how particular narratives, concepts and discourses become dominant in such settings.…”

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“Beyond nature and culture: relational perspectives on the Wadden Sea landscape”

2021

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Section: Relational Approaches-origins and Conceptual Aspectsmentioning

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“Beyond nature and culture: relational perspectives on the Wadden Sea landscape”

2021

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“…In the absence of absolute truths and related authority, neither the opponents nor the project planners consider the knowledge produced by the other party as reliable. Instead of duels of experts, this observation should lead to improved deliberation between experts; thus, in the pursuit of collaborative rationality, the main task is to create legitimate and socially robust knowledge jointly with experts and stakeholders (see also: Matsuura and Schenk 2017; Seijger et al 2016;Islam and Susskind 2013;Ehrmann and Stinson 1999). In this joint knowledge production process, expertise is exploited as a fundamental source of knowledge but it is complemented with local, experiential, and other forms of nonscientific knowledge.…”

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Creating collaboration for contentious projects on managed aquifer recharge: two cases from Finland

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In Finland, community water supply has increasingly relied on natural groundwater and artificially recharged groundwater as the raw water source. Several managed aquifer recharge (MAR) projects have been co-created with involved parties and have proceeded well, while some cases have raised considerable resistance among the stakeholders. It seems that success or failure in MAR cooperation is related to management cultures and the ways in which various interests are taken into account, from the very beginning and throughout the process. Empirically, this paper builds on comparison between two conflictual case studies in Finland: one in the Tampere region and the other in the Turku region. The study analyses the major constraints of these projects through the lens of collaborative rationality, also drawing upon discourse analysis and negotiation theory. The material is gathered through thematic interviews of stakeholders, newspaper articles and a stakeholder workshop. The results indicate that conventional management approaches, drawing from expert-based instrumental rationality, were insufficient in both cases. The collaborative rationality framework suggests that legitimacy for the groundwater projects should be gained through joint knowledge production and inclusive multiparty interaction for creating options for collaboration. Both cases lacked the tools and know-how for authentic dialogue and collaboration. The emerging paradigm emphasizes more collaborative approaches for natural resources management and urban planning. While MAR projects operate inside these areas and are highly complex in nature, it is essential to embrace the emerging paradigm in order to promote MAR systems along with their huge potential.

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“…The project addressed a problem that matters to them, namely the lack of agriculture, and by doing so positively affected the latent problem of Coralita invasion. A simultaneous effort to move up the vertical axis should be made too; to achieve this, the literature on, for example, joint knowledge production (Hegger et al 2012) and socially robust science (Seijger et al 2016) might be useful in offering analytical and methodological tools for knowledge production that take account of stakeholders' questions, knowledge and interests. PAR-L's focus on improving day-to-day lives could thus be complemented with a knowledge-gathering component, preempting the risk that a low sense of project efficacy will keep the community from participating.…”

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Tailoring participatory action research to deal with the latent problem of an invasive alien vine on Saba, Caribbean Netherlands

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Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach for fully co-creating research into environmental problems with the public. We argue this is mostly done for manifest environmental problems that clearly threaten livelihoods and have highly predictable impacts. But the conventional PAR approach is not suitable when the impacts are poorly understood and pose a low threat to livelihoods. Such latent environmental problems do not have a clear conflict to be resolved; instead, the community's inertia should be overcome. In this article, we develop what we call the PAR-L approach, for which we present a step-by-step guide and an evaluation framework. We then demonstrate this approach on the latent problem of the invasive alien Coralita vine (Antigonon leptopus) on Saba (Caribbean Netherlands) and find that it results in thorough understanding of the community inertia. Overcoming the inertia would require a project to run longer and a simultaneous knowledge-gathering effort, but PAR-L is a good starting point.

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Socially robust knowledge in coastal projects

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

“Beyond nature and culture: relational perspectives on the Wadden Sea landscape”

“Beyond nature and culture: relational perspectives on the Wadden Sea landscape”

Creating collaboration for contentious projects on managed aquifer recharge: two cases from Finland

Tailoring participatory action research to deal with the latent problem of an invasive alien vine on Saba, Caribbean Netherlands

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