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标题：Social Learning through Participatory Integrated Catchment Risk Assessment in the Solomon Islands
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作者：Suzanne Hoverman ; Helen Ross ; Terence Chan 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2011
卷号：16
期号：2
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：In developed countries a social learning approach has been shown to support IntegratedWater Resources Management (IWRM) by fostering stakeholders' understanding of system complexity,recognition of mutual dependence, appreciation of others' perspectives, and development of the capacityto work together and to create mutual trust. Much less is known about social learning's potential in lessdeveloped small island states, particularly postconflict island states, where integration must navigateprescriptive management, limited resources, widely differing world views, a history of adversarialrelationships, and unsuccessful attempts at government-community collaboration. This paper analyzes thetransformative aspects of a social learning experience that occurred during research facilitating participatoryintegrated catchment management in the Pacific. The study elicited community and expert knowledge tocreate systems understanding to generate and analyze complex scenarios for integrated catchment riskassessment in the Kongulai catchment, Solomon Islands. Separate sequenced and then combined discussionsled to facilitated exploration of others' subjective assessment of catchment risks and management options.Issues of transparency, trust, accountability, and mutual responsibility were explored in carefully createddiscursive spaces, assisted by the immediacy of personal contact and the absence of complex bureaucraticstructures. Despite historical difficulties, through the use of bridging individuals, participants were generallyable to transcend the constraints of their individual knowledge cultures, expand awareness and appreciationof the complexity of human-environment systems for IWRM, and envisage new opportunities forproductively working together in integrated catchment management
关键词：catchment risk assessment; collective social action; deliberative democratic theory; developing;countries; Integrated Water Resources Management; IWRM; knowledge systems; social learning; Solomon;Islands; Pacific Islands