Addressing socio-ecological development challenges in the digital age: Exploring the potential of Environmental Virtual Observatories for Connective Action (EVOCA)
Addressing socio-ecological development challenges in the digital age: Exploring the potential of Environmental Virtual Observatories for Connective Action (EVOCA)
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应对数字时代的社会生态发展挑战：探索互联行动环境虚拟观测站 (EVOCA) 的潜力
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10.1016/j.njas.2018.07.006
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2022
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Cieslik K
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气候变化、（a）生物压力和环境退化正在对非洲农业社区的生计产生不利影响。应对这些挑战需要利益攸关方之间采取有效的集体行动和协调，而这往往证明是难以实现的。及时和具体情况下的相关环境动态信息有很大的希望，以克服这些problem.This本文探讨公民科学在促进知识的共同创造和学术界，发展行为体和用户在发展中国家的情况下共享的作用。在我们的方法中，我们专注于信息共享平台（称为环境虚拟观测站，EVOs）和他们的潜力，以促进适应性决策在六个农村的案例研究领域在Africa.We补充现有的理论EVOs的集中探索的连接功能的信息和通信技术支持的多利益相关者交流。我们建议，增加连通性可能会使新形式的集体行动（标记为“连接行动”），相关的解决社会生态挑战。沿着这些路线，本文提出了一个研究计划，渴望开发环境虚拟观测站连接行动（EVOCAs），并探讨其潜力，改善作物，水，牲畜和疾病管理在非洲农村的理论和概念基础。
Climate change, (a) biotic stresses and environmental degradation are adversely affecting the sustenance of farming communities in Africa. Addressing such challenges requires effective collective action and coordination among stakeholders, which often prove difficult to achieve. Timely and context-specific information on relevant environmental dynamics holds considerable promise to overcome these problems.This paper investigates the role of citizen science in facilitating knowledge co-creation and sharing between academia, development actors and users in developing country contexts. In our approach, we focus on information sharing platforms (known as Environmental Virtual Observatories, EVOs) and their potential to facilitate adaptive decision-making in six rural case-study areas in Africa.We complement the existing theory on EVOs with a focused exploration of the connective function of ICT-enabled multi-stakeholder exchange. We propose that increased connectivity may enable new forms of collective action (labelled ‘connective action’), relevant to addressing socio-ecological challenges. Along these lines, this paper presents the theoretical and conceptual grounding of a research program that aspires to develop Environmental Virtual Observatories for Connective Action (EVOCAs) and to explore their potential for improved crop, water, livestock and disease management in rural Africa.