Evaluating participatory research: Framework, methods and implementation results

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 157, Issue , 2015, Pages 311-319

  Smajgl, Alex ^a,b   Ward, John ^a,c  

^a Mekong Region Futures Institute   (Thailand)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Monitoring; Participatory research; Water, food and energy nexus

Indexed keywords

WATER;

DECISION MAKING; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; GUIDELINE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LEARNING; NATURAL RESOURCE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RESEARCH; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84928739291     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.04.014     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Ajzen I. The theory of planned behaviour. Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process. 1981, 50:179-211.
2. Ajzen I. Attitudes, Personality and Behavior 1988, Open University Press, Milton Keynes.
3. Albert C., Zimmermann T., Knieling J., von Haaren C. Social learning can benefit decision-making in landscape planning: Gartow case study on climate change adaptation, Elbe valley biosphere reserve. Landsc. Urban Plan. 2012, 105:347-360.
4. Baas N., Langton C. Emergence, Hierarchies and Hyperstructure 156 1994, Addison-Wesley, New York.
5. Bankes S.C. Tools and techniques for developing policies for complex and uncertain systems. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2002, 99:7263-7266.
6. Barreteau O., Bots P.W.G., Daniell K.A. Aframework for clarifying "participation" in participatory research to prevent its rejection for the wrong reasons. Ecol. Soc. 2010, 15:1.
7. Barry D., Oelschlaeger M. Ascience for survival: values and conservation biology. Conserv. Biol. 1998, 10:905-911.
8. Beach L.R. Image theory: an alternative to normative decision theory 1993, 235-238. Advances in Consumer Research Association for Consumer Research, Provo, UT. L. McAlister, M.L. Rothschild (Eds.).
9. Beach L.R., Mitchell T.R. The basics of image theory. Image Theory: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations 1998, 3-18. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ. L.R. Beach (Ed.).
10. Beratan K.K. Acognition-based view of decision processes in complex social-ecological systems. Ecol. Soc. 2007, 12:27.
11. Boaz A., Fitzpatrick S., Shaw B. Assessing the Impact of Research on Policy: a Review of the Literature for a Project on Bridging Research and Policy through Outcome Evaluation. King's College London 2008, University of London, London, UK.
12. Boschetti F., Hardy P.-Y., Grigg N., Horwitz P. Can we Learn How Complex Systems Work? Emergence 2010, Complexity and Organization.
13. Castellani B., Hafferty F. Sociology and Complexity Science: a New Field of Inquiry 2009, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
14. Chess C. Evaluating environmental public participation: methodological questions. J.Environ. Plan. Manag. 2000, 43:769-784.
15. Connick S., Innes J.E. Outcomes of collaborative water policy making: applying complexity thinking to evaluation. J.Environ. Plan. Manag. 2003, 46:177-197.
16. Dietz T., Stirling Frisch A., Kalof L., Stern P.C., Guagnano G.A. Values and vegetarianism. An Explor. Analysis Rural Sociol. 1995, 60:533-542.
17. Fishbein M., Ajzen I. Belief, attitude, intention, and behaviour: an introduction to theory and research 1975, Addison-Wesley, Reading.
18. Foran T., Ward J., Kemp-Benedict E., Smajgl A. Developing detailed foresight narratives: a participatory technique from the Mekong region. Ecol. Soc. 2013, 18:6.
19. Funtowicz S.O., Ravetz J.R. Emergent complex systems. Futures 1994, 26:568-582.
20. Gigerenzer G., Todd P.M., Group A.B.C.R. Simple Heuristics that make us Smart 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
21. Gilbert N. Agent-based Models 2008, SAGE Publications, Los Angeles.
22. Habermas J. Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action 1990, Polity Press, Cambridge.
23. Habermas J. Concluding comments on empirical approaches to deliberative politics. Acta Polit. 2005, 40:384-392.
24. Holland J. Emergence: from Chaos to Order 495 1998, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
25. Jonassen D.H. Evaluating constructivistic learning. Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction: a Conversation 1992, 137-148. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey Hove and London. T.M. Duffy, D.H. Jonassen (Eds.).
26. Jones N.A., Perez P., Measham T.G., Kelly G.J., D'Aquino P., Daniell K., Dray A., Ferrand N. Evaluating participatory modeling: developing a framework for cross-case analysis. Environ. Manag. 2009, 44:1180-1195.
27. Kaplan S. Human nature and environmentally responsible behavior. J.Soc. Issues 2000, 56:491-508.
28. Kellert S.R., Mehta J.N., Ebbin S.A., Lichtenfeld L.L. Community natural resource management: promise, rhetoric, and reality. Soc. Nat. Resour. 2000, 13:705-715.
29. Kristjanson P.M., Thornton P.K. Methodological challenges in evaluating impact of crop-livestock interventions. Sustainable Crop-lifestock Production for Improved Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management in West Africa 2004, ILRI, Ibadan, Nigeria. T.O. Williams, S.A. Tarawali, P. Hiernaux, S. Fernandez-Rivera (Eds.).
30. Larson S., Measham T.G., Williams L.J. Remotely engaged? Towards a framework for monitoring the success of stakeholder engagement in remote regions. J.Environ. Plan. Manag. 2010, 53:827-845.
31. Nagel U.J., Aenis T. Towards Impact Assessment of Transdisciplinary Research Programs, Fifth IFSA European Symposium - Farming and Rural Systems Research and Extension 2002, 19-29. Local Identities and Globalisation, Florence, Italy.
32. Pedersen J. Habermas' method: rational reconstruction. Philosophy Soc. Sci. 2008, 38:457-485.
33. Perez P., Aubert S., Dare W., Ducrot R., Jones N., Queste J., Trebuil G., Van Paassen A. Assessment and monitoring of the effects of the ComMod approach. Companion Modelling: a Participatory Approach to Support Sustainable Development 2011, (Editions Quae, Versaille Cedex, France). M. Etienne (Ed.).
34. Petts J. Evaluating the effectiveness of deliberative processes: waste management case-studies. J.Environ. Plan. Manag. 2001, 44:207-226.
35. Plummer R., Armitage D. Aresilience-based framework for evaluating adaptive co-management: linking ecology, economics and society in a complex world. Ecol. Econ. 2007, 61:62-74.
36. Poteete A.R., Janssen M.A., Ostrom E. Working Togeher: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice 2010, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
37. Roling N.G. The emergence of knowledge systems thinking 860. Knowl. Policy: Int. J. Knowl. Transf. Util. 1992, 5:42-64.
38. Sarewitz D., Pielke R.A. The neglected heart of science policy: reconciling supply of and demand for science. Environ. Sci. Policy 2007, 10:5-16.
39. Schwartz S.H. Universals in the Content and Structure of Values: Theory and Empirical Tests in 20 Countries 1992, 1-65. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Academic Press, New York. M. Zanna (Ed.).
40. Schwartz S.H., Bilsky W. Toward a psychological structure of human values. J.Personality Soc. Psychol. 1987, 53:550-562.
41. Schwartz S.H., Bilsky W. Toward a theory of the universal content and structure of values: extensions and cross cultural replications. J.Personality Soc. Psychol. 1990, 58:878-891.
42. Schwartz S.H., Tessler R.C. Atest of a model for reducing measured attitude-behaviour discrepancies. J.Personality Soc. Psychol. 1972, 24:225-236.
43. Smajgl A. Accounting for multiple governance scales in integrated modelling and decision support. Reflecting on Integrated Mission Directed Research: Learning from Experience in Environmental and Natural Resource Management 2009, 1-15. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. W. Proctor, L. Van Kerkhoff, S. Hatfield Dodds (Eds.).
44. Smajgl A. Challenging beliefs through multi-level participatory modelling in Indonesia. Environ. Model. Softw. 2010, 25:1470-1476.
45. Smajgl A., Egan S., Kirby M., Mainuddin M., Ward J., Kroon F. The Mekong Region Simulation (Mersim) Model - Design Document CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship 2013, (Townsville).
46. Smajgl A., Foran T., Dore J., Ward J., Larson S. Visions, beliefs and transformation: exploring cross-sector and trans-boundary dynamics in the wider Mekong region. Ecol. Soc. 2015, (in press).
47. Smajgl A., Ward J. Aframework for bridging science and decision making. Futures 2013, 52:52-58.
48. Smajgl A., Ward J. The Water-food-energy Nexus in the Mekong Region 2013, Springer, (New York).
49. Sterman J.D. Risk communication on climate: mental models & mass balance. Science 2008, 322:532-533.
50. Stern P.C., Dietz T., Abel T., Guagnano G.A., Kalof L. Avalue belief norm theory of support for social movements: the case of environmental concern. Hum. Ecol. Rev. 1999, 6:81-97.
51. Stern P.C., Dietz T., Guagnano G.A. Abrief inventory of values. Educ. Psychol. Meas. 1998, 58:984-990.
52. Todd P.M. Fast and Frugal heuristics for environmentally bounded minds. Bounded Rationality: the Adaptive Toolbox 2001, 51-70. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. G. Gigerenzer, R. Selten (Eds.).
53. Voinov A., Bousquet F. Modelling with stakeholders. Environ. Model. Softw. 2010, 25:1168-1281.
54. Ward J., Foran T., Smajgl A., Bouapao L., Pech S., Xing L. Mekong energy metabolism: connecting energy demand into the Nexus of food-water-energy security. International Conference on GMS 2020: Balancing Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability 2011, ADB, Manila, Bangkok. H. Moinuddin (Ed.).
55. Zellner M.L., Page S.E., Rand W., Brown D.G., Robinson D.T., Nassauer J., Low B. The emergence of zoning policy games in exurban jurisdictions: informing collective action theory. Land Use Policy 2009, 26:256-367.