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Levine, Jordan; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia; jlevine@interchange.ubc.ca; Muthukrishna, Michael; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics; muthukrishna@fas.harvard.edu; Chan, Kai M. A.; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia; kaichan@ires.ubc.ca; Satterfield, Terre; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia; terre.satterfield@ires.ubc.ca. |
Arriving at shared mental models among multiple stakeholder groups can be crucial for successful management of contested social-ecological systems (SES). Academia can help by first eliciting stakeholders’ initial, often tacit, beliefs about a SES, and representing them in useful ways. We demonstrate a new recombination of techniques for this purpose, focusing specifically on tacit beliefs about food webs. Our approach combines freelisting and sorting techniques, salience analysis, and ultimately network analysis, to produce accessible visualizations of aggregate mental models that can then be used to facilitate discussion or generate further hypotheses about cognitive drivers of conflict. The case study we draw upon to demonstrate this technique... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: British Columbia; Food webs; Mental models; Network analysis; Salience analysis. |
Ano: 2015 |
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