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2. Eyes wide shut: exploring practices of negotiated ignorance in water resources modelling and management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chong, Natalie (author), Deroubaix, José-Frédéric (author), and Bonhomme, Céline (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10625
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 227: 286-293
- Notes:
- 8 pages., via online journal., Formalised methods to address uncertainty are becoming the norm in hydrological modelling, yet they remain fragmented and highly academic, thus limiting their utility for practitioners. Using a qualitative, empirical study of the PIREN-Seine program in France, this paper explores the proccesses behind this trend in an effort to elucidate its prevalence despite inherent limitations when applied to a decision-making context. We identify: 1/ displacement of ‘uncomfortable knowledge’, 2/ fragmented responsibility, 3/ confidence, and 4/ relational framing as interconnected factors, which concurrently support the production of scientific knowledge and the social construction of ignorance, whether it be wilful or intentional. We posit that ignorance is implicitly negotiated among researchers and practitioners in order to reconcile cognitive dissonance and maintain confidence, thereby allowing water managers to take action in the face of uncertainty. Finally, we put forth the notion that having our ‘eyes wide shut’ can be interpreted in two ways: one facilitates the normalisation of ignorance, leaving us vulnerable to unexpected surprises; the other promotes transparent and explicit communication in support of more adaptive and robust decisions.
3. Inclusion of social indicators in decision support tools for the selection of sustainable site remediation options
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cappuyns, Valérie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-12-15
- Published:
- Belgium: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D07991
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 184 (part 1): 45-56
- Notes:
- full text
4. Science communication and vernal pool conservation: a study of local decision maker attitudes in a knowledge-action system
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McGreavy, Bridie (author), Webler, Thomas (author), and Calhoun, Aram J.K. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-03
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10624
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 95(1):1-8
- Notes:
- 8 pages., via online journal., In this study, we describe local decision maker attitudes towards vernal pools to inform science communication and enhance vernal pool conservation efforts. We conducted interviews with town planning board and conservation commission members (n = 9) from two towns in the State of Maine in the northeastern United States. We then mailed a questionnaire to a stratified random sample of planning board members in August and September 2007 with a response rate of 48.4% (n = 320). The majority of survey respondents favored the protection and conservation of vernal pools in their towns. Decision makers were familiar with the term “vernal pool” and demonstrated positive attitudes to vernal pools in general. General appreciation and willingness to conserve vernal pools predicted support for the 2006 revisions to the Natural Resource Protection Act regulating Significant Vernal Pools. However, 48% of respondents were unaware of this law and neither prior knowledge of the law nor workshop attendance predicted support for the vernal pool law. Further, concerns about private property rights and development restrictions predicted disagreement with the vernal pool law. We conclude that science communication must rely on specific frames of reference, be sensitive to cultural values, and occur in an iterative system to link knowledge and action in support of vernal pool conservation.
5. The interconnectedness between landowner knowledge, value, belief, attitude, and willingness to act: Policy implications for carbon sequestration on private rangelands
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cook, Seth L. (author) and Ma, Zhao (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-02-15
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D07996
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 134 : 90-99
- Notes:
- full text
6. The role of institutional actors and their interactions in the land use policy making process in Ethiopia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ariti, Adenew Taffa (author), Van Vliet, Jasper (author), and Verburg, Peter H. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10626
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 237: 235-246
- Notes:
- 12 pages., via online journal., This study investigates the role of the different institutional actors involved in the development and implementation of land use policies in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. The work is based on interviews with key informants from different administrative levels and these results are compared to the relevant policy documents. While the constitution prescribes a participatory policy development process, our results show that in reality policies are made at the highest level and implemented in a top-down approach from the higher to the lower administrative levels. Moreover, the institutional network mainly consists of institutions that are hierarchically linked, while horizontal and diagonal relations are less common and less important. Consistently, higher level institutions are mostly involved in the development of land use policies, while the roles of lower level institutions are predominantly in the implementation thereof. This lack of participation by lower level institutions, in addition to a lack of capacity and absence of clear institutional mandates, hampers the effectiveness of land use policies. Our results also provide suggestions to improve the development, communication, and eventually the acceptability of land use policies towards sustainable land management.
7. The role of public communication in decision making for waste management infrastructure
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kirkman, Richard (author) and Voulvoulis, Nikolaos (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-06-18
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D07986
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- Online
- Notes:
- full text, In Press, Corrected Proof
8. Understanding the influence of power and empathic perspective-taking on collaborative natural resource management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wald, Dara M. (author), Segal, Elizabeth A. (author), Johnston, Erik W. (author), and Vinze, Ajay (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-09-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10618
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 199: 201-210
- Notes:
- 10 pages., via online journal., Public engagement in collaborative natural resource management necessitates shared understanding and collaboration. Empathic perspective-taking is a critical facilitator of shared understanding and positive social interactions, such as collaboration. Yet there is currently little understanding about how to reliably generate empathic perspective-taking and collaboration, particularly in situations involving the unequal distribution of environmental resources or power. Here we examine how experiencing the loss or gain of social power influenced empathic perspective-taking and behavior within a computer-mediated scenario. Participants (n = 180) were randomly assigned to each condition: high resources, low resources, lose resources, gain resources. Contrary to our expectations, participants in the perspective-taking condition, specifically those who lost resources, also lost perspective taking and exhibited egoistic behavior. This finding suggests that resource control within the collaborative process is a key contextual variable that influences perspective-taking and collaborative behavior. Moreover, the observed relationship between perspective-taking and egoistic behavior within a collaborative resource sharing exercise suggests that when resource control or access is unequal, interventions to promote perspective-taking deserve careful consideration.