Towards systemic and adaptive governance: Exploring the revealing and concealing aspects of contemporary social-learning metaphors

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Ison ◽  
Chris Blackmore ◽  
Benjamin L. Iaquinto
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Learning Metaphors

Systems Approaches Enable Improved Collaboration in Two Regional Australian Natural Resource Governance Situations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moragh Mackay ◽  
Catherine Allan ◽  
Ross Colliver ◽  
Jonathon Howard
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Collaborative Processes

Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Australia is socially and ecologically complex, uncertain and contested. Government and non-government stakeholders act and collaborate in regionally-based, multi-scale NRM governance situations, but imbalances in power and breakdowns in trust constrain transparency and equity. Here, we report on an action research project exploring the potential of social learning to contribute to systemic change in multi-governance situations. We sought to understand practices and institutional arrangements in two regional NRM governance case studies in southern Victoria, Australia. Drawing on this research, we explore how social learning, with its foundation of systems thinking, has enabled improved collaborative processes and adaptive governance to emerge.

Institutionalising social learning: Towards systemic and adaptive governance

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Ison ◽  
Kevin B. Collins ◽  
Philip J. Wallis
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Adaptive Governance

scholarly journals The governance dimensions of water security: a review

2013 ◽  
Vol 371 (2002) ◽  
pp. 20130116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Bakker ◽  
Cynthia Morinville
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Water Security ◽  
The Political ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Freshwater Systems ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Multi Level

Water governance is critical to water security, and to the long-term sustainability of the Earth's freshwater systems. This review examines recent debates regarding the governance dimensions of water security, including adaptive governance, polycentric governance, social learning and multi-level governance. The analysis emphasizes the political and institutional dimensions of water governance, and explores the relevance of social power—an overlooked yet important aspect of the water security debate. In addition, the review explores the intersection and potential synergies between water governance perspectives and risk-based approaches to water security, and offers critiques and suggestions for further research questions and agendas.

A cognitive approach to cumulative technological culture is useful and necessary but only if it also applies to other species

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaud Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
Social Learning Processes

Abstract The debate on cumulative technological culture (CTC) is dominated by social-learning discussions, at the expense of other cognitive processes, leading to flawed circular arguments. I welcome the authors' approach to decouple CTC from social-learning processes without minimizing their impact. Yet, this model will only be informative to understand the evolution of CTC if tested in other cultural species.

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