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2. Communication support for sustainable natural resource management
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Röling, Niels (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Language:
- English / French
- Publication Date:
- 1994-04
- Published:
- Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10634
- Journal Title:
- IDS Bulletin banner
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(2): 125-133
- Notes:
- 9 pages., via online journal., Natural Resource Management (NRM) can be looked upon from different perspectives: (1) the bio‐physical science perspective, (2) the economic perspective and (3) the social actor perspective. After briefly contrasting the three complementary perspectives, the article focuses on the third, which is the least developed. The social actor perspective requires that one distinguish between (1) the natural resource (be it a farm, a water catchment, underground water resources, etc.) and (2) the social actors who hold a stake in, and/or affect it. These stakeholders ideally form a platform for integral decision making about the natural resource. The platform/resource combination highlights communication processes of interest in sustainable NRM: creating a rich picture of intentions and realities; (land use) negotiation and accommodation; making things visible; raising the level of social aggregation at which platforms operate; and information systems for platform decision support. Such and other platform processes need active facilitation. The article outlines the implications for communication support, and explores professional contributions.
3. Experiencing biodiversity as a bridge over the science-society communication gap
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- MEINARD, YVES (author), QUÉTIER, FABIEN (author), and Gereco, Espace Saint-Germain Bâtiment le Saxo, 30 avenue du Général Leclerc Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Zürich Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, UMR 5553 du CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 09 Biotope, 22 Boulevard du Maréchal Foch, BP 58
- Format:
- Journal article
- Language:
- English with Spanish / English abstract
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- USA: Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08304
- Journal Title:
- Conservation Biology
- Journal Title Details:
- 28 (3): 705-712
4. Pilot roll-out: adaptive research in farmers' worlds
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Murray-Prior, Roy (author), van de Fliert, Elske (author), Christiana, Budi (author), and Hendayana, Rachmat (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Indonesia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C30659
- Journal Title:
- Extension Farming Systems Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 6(1) : 63-71
5. Responding to stakeholder's demands for climate information: from research to applications in Florida
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Jagtap, S.S. (author), Jones, J.W. (author), Hildebrand, P. (author), Letson, D. (author), O'Brien, J.J. (author), Podestá, G. (author), Zierden, D. (author), and Zazueta, F. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-12
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07811
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 74 (3): 415-430
6. 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.
7. Scientists, environmental managers and science journalists: a hierarchical model to comprehend and enhance the environmental decision-making process
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Carcez da Rocha, Erika (author) and Bernardo da Rocha, Pedro Luis (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11415
- Journal Title:
- Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
- Journal Title Details:
- 16(4) : 169-176
- Notes:
- 24 pages., Open access and online via ScienceDirect., The suggested model involves interactions and integration among knowledge (K), social practices (P), and values (V). Authors contemplated bottom-up relationships among scientists, environmental managers, science journalists, and other citizens operating within a context of top-down institutional constraints. They emphasized values and social practices, as well as knowledge, in addressing institutional change.