Participatory Methods:
Concept ?
How the participatory research methods can be integrated in environmental science ?
Any Examples?
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There are many possible examples, and I have been involved with a fair number in the context of forests and conservation. Participatory methods are used in many contexts for many purposes including stakeholder identification, decision making, planning, conflict management, information collection, landscape assessment, monitoring and other forms of project oversight amongst others.
We put together two summary documents on the methods themselves that may be useful to you. See here:
Article A Review of Tools for Incorporating Community Knowledge, Pre...
and here:
Article Guide to Participatory Tools for Forest Communities
I have summarised some of the broader options and opportunities in the context of conservation biology (where I also note some of the challenges). See here
Article Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: New oppo...
we have also been writing about these approaches in the context of inventories and forest cover change ... see here:
Article The feasibility of local participation in Measuring, Reporti...
There are many more examples, but these four publications all offer some overview and synthesis so might be a useful place to start (see also their examples and bibliographies).
Hope they help
Douglas
could be useful in environmental changes over time. different tools of participatory research e.g. FGD, KII etc are very useful in trends analysis and data triangulation. For example: Study of Biodiversity status in a certain ecosystem.
Thank you so much for sharing with me these useful informations, documents and links
I am very gratuful to you for your help,
Nezha
There are many possible examples, and I have been involved with a fair number in the context of forests and conservation. Participatory methods are used in many contexts for many purposes including stakeholder identification, decision making, planning, conflict management, information collection, landscape assessment, monitoring and other forms of project oversight amongst others.
We put together two summary documents on the methods themselves that may be useful to you. See here:
Article A Review of Tools for Incorporating Community Knowledge, Pre...
and here:
Article Guide to Participatory Tools for Forest Communities
I have summarised some of the broader options and opportunities in the context of conservation biology (where I also note some of the challenges). See here
Article Tropical biologists, local people and conservation: New oppo...
we have also been writing about these approaches in the context of inventories and forest cover change ... see here:
Article The feasibility of local participation in Measuring, Reporti...
There are many more examples, but these four publications all offer some overview and synthesis so might be a useful place to start (see also their examples and bibliographies).
Hope they help
Douglas
Two methods using crowdsourcing citizen science
Article Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by ...
Article Citizen science pioneers in Kenya – A crowdsourced approach ...
Asian waterbird census coordinated by Wetland International. Here is the report from Indonesia: https://indonesia.wetlands.org/publications/result-waterbird-count-indonesia-asian-waterbird-census-2016-part-international-waterbird-census-50/
Useful links:
1. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000290
2. https://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-6-1-2011-Kelman-et-al_0.pdf
If you are interested in using participatory methods for ecosystem services research, I would suggest you take a look at the following practitioner's manual.
Schreckenberg, K., C.A. Torres Vitolas, S. Willcok, C. Shackleton, C. Harvey and D. Kafumbota. 2016. Participatory data collection for ecosystem services research: A practitioner’s manual. ESPA Working Paper Series #3, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation program, Edinburgh, Scotland. ISSN 2058-9875.
Available at: http://www.espa.ac.uk/files/espa/PRA-Manual.pdf
Here is another paper where participatory methods are applied for environmental science Article Community perceptions of forest–water relationships in the B...
And Newing's is a freely downloadable book. Here it is. Read the whole book. Worth it.
ebird platform can be a really good example of citizen science projects that has help gain data of bird species across the world. It has helped understand the seasonal patterns of local and migratory bird movements and with increased participation has only helped strengthen the database.
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