Mental models of a social-ecological system facilitate social learning among a diverse management team
Mental models of a social-ecological system facilitate social learning among a diverse management team
复制标题
社会生态系统的心理模型促进多元化管理团队之间的社会学习
DOI：
10.1016/j.envsci.2021.04.006
复制
发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
6
通讯作者：
Klein, Julia A.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Steger, Cara;Gebrehiwot, Kflay;Chengere, Shambel Alemu;Marinkovich, Jake;Dullo, Bikila Warkineh;Zewde, Sisay Wube;Klein, Julia A.
管理社会生态系统越来越需要具有广泛世界观和观点的不同团队之间的合作。这些协作团队需要更多地关注影响环境结果的社会和文化因素，以有效地发挥作用。心理模型是对外部世界的认知表征，它指导着个人的思考、决策和行为。它们是协作环境管理的关键要素，因为它们塑造了我们对社会生态系统的理解，我们对环境问题的看法，以及我们对某些管理行为的偏好。在本文中，我们描述了在一年的过程中，在埃塞俄比亚高地以社区为基础的保护区，在个人和小组层面构建和修改心理模型的迭代过程。我们比较了参与管理的四个群体对保护区的思维模式，以确定人们对保护区概念的共同性和差异性。虽然我们发现心理模型在群体内部和群体之间都存在高度的可变性，但大多数参与者认为社会、经济和政治变量是这个系统变化的关键驱动因素。经济变量以及生物和生计变量也被确定为关键敏感因素。然而，各组在如何看待这些变量之间的关系，特别是政治和经济变量之间的关系方面存在很大差异。我们通过与参与者的访谈来评估他们在整个心智建模过程中是如何学习的，找到利益相关者关系、系统理解和计划中使用的时间范围变化的证据。在我们的过程中，女性农民在多个阶段与其他群体不同，无论是在她们所产生的模式结构上，还是在她们所经历的社会学习上。我们的研究通过迭代过程得到加强，这个过程允许个人和小组反思他们自己的理解并与他人分享，从而增加了管理团队成员之间的沟通、相互尊重和理解。这些发现指出了个体和群体层面的心智模型对于细致入微的系统理解的互补性，并强调了协作环境管理中需要不同的视角，以便对问题和解决方案进行整体理解。
Managing social-ecological systems increasingly requires collaboration among diverse teams with a wide range of worldviews and perspectives. Increased attention to the social and cultural factors that shape environmental outcomes is needed for these collaborative teams to function effectively. Mental models are cognitive representations of the external world which guide an individual’s thinking, decision-making, and behavior. They are critical elements of collaborative environmental management because they shape our understanding of social-ecological systems, our perceptions of environmental problems, and our preferences for certain management actions. In this paper, we describe an iterative process of constructing and revising mental models at both individual and small group levels over the course of a year in a community-based conservation area in the Ethiopian highlands. We compared mental models of the conservation area from four groups involved in management to identify commonalities and differences in the way people conceptualize the area. While we found high variability in mental models both within and across groups, most participants perceived social, economic, and political variables to be the key drivers of change in this system. Economic variables were also identified as key sensitivities, along with biotic and livelihood variables. However, groups differed considerably in how they thought about relationships between these variables, particularly political and economic variables. We used interviews with participants to assess how they learned throughout the mental modeling process, finding evidence of changes to stakeholder relationships, system understanding, and the time horizons used in planning. Women farmers differed from other groups at multiple stages in our process, both in the structure of the models they produced and in the social learning they experienced. Our study was strengthened by the iterative process that allowed individuals and small groups to reflect on their own understanding and share it with others, resulting in increased communication, mutual respect, and understanding among members of the management team. These findings point to the complementarity of both individual and group-level mental modeling for nuanced system understanding, and emphasize the need for diverse perspectives in collaborative environmental management in order for holistic understanding of both problems and solutions to emerge.
登录
查看更多内容
影响因子：
2
作者：
Ashenafi, ZT;Leader-Williams, N
通讯作者：
Leader-Williams, N
影响因子：
3.5
作者：
B. McCusker;Edward R. Carr
通讯作者：
B. McCusker;Edward R. Carr
自然资源共同管理中参与者的相互作用——动态视角
影响因子：
6.9
作者：
Anke Fischer;D. Wakjira;Yitbarek Weldesemaet;Z. T. Ashenafi
通讯作者：
Z. T. Ashenafi
知识合作提高了对埃塞俄比亚高地环境变化的了解
影响因子：
4.1
作者：
Steger, Cara;Nigussie, Girma;Alonzo, Michael;Warkineh, Bikila;Van Den Hoek, Jamon;Fekadu, Mekbib;Evangelista, Paul H.;Klein, Julia A.
通讯作者：
Klein, Julia A.
可持续性、社会学习和民主势在必行：澳大利亚土地保育运动的经验教训
DOI：
--
发表时间：
2010
期刊：
影响因子：
--
作者：
J. Woodhill
通讯作者：
J. Woodhill