Dear all

This is just the kind of work we would like to see circulated & published in the action research community! Take a look at the Collaborative Action Research Network website for details of our journal, Educational Action Research, the 40th anniversary PAR conference to be held in Cartagena, Colombia in June, and our own forthcoming conference in Crete in November.



http://carn.org.uk



best wishes

Ruth





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I am just about to publish the final report of a participatory action research project I have done on community resilience and heatwaves (I should be able to share the report tomorrow), and we aimed to work in exactly the way Mike describes. An important theme in our findings is the way in which we - as researcher facilitators - were viewed as a 'honest brokers' of new relationships between local statutory bodies and community groups, between government departments, and between central and local government. It's important to note that expert facilitation takes time and so needs investment; it could be that poor facilitation is also the result of inadequate budgets (though inadequate training is doubtless also a challenge in some cases).







More tomorrow...



Kevin Burchell



Policy Studies Institute





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Dear Mike







As I am currently investigating the Cumbria Flood Partnership’s activities since Storm Desmond, I just had to say that I am in complete agreement with your first para!







Thanks



Hugh







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Dear John,







Thank you for your paper which I found most interesting. I suspect that the biggest drawback to participatory mapping and the Q method, is the transaction cost and the limitations on funding to support good participatory process. I think that one way of reducing costs is through the use of expert facilitators who take responsibility for group process and conflict management, AND do this developmentally so that stakeholders are empowered to become more effective in their deliberations. In my experience there are many “facilitators” who have relatively little training thus adding to the muddle and disempowering stakeholders. I think this is another interesting and fruitful field for research.







The companion modeling approach http://www.commod.org/en is another useful way of bringing stakeholder to a common understanding of the complexity of a given situation. Among other things, it allows them to learn about a system and how it will respond to different decisions, though play.



[http://www.commod.org/var/commod/storage/images/media/images/coverquae-en/32992-1-fre-FR/coverquae-en_medium.gif]<http://www.commod.org/en>



Commod<http://www.commod.org/en>

www.commod.org

ComMod : a Companion Modelling Approach. Since 2000, some researchers working in the field of renewable resource management have been using various tools ...











I look forward to your book chapter in due course.







All the best







Mike







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On Jan 23, 2017, at 12:01 , John Forrester <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:







Hi Mike,



I agree wholeheartedly. I have got a trailer for this thesis in print once so far (Forrester et al in Applied Geography 56, 2015:199-208) and have expanded it in completed book chapter which is still awaiting publication I'm afraid...







Happy to discuss. I use Rittel & Webber, Ackhof, and bring it up-to-date.  Best, John.







On 23 January 2017 at 10:16, Mike Jones <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:



Dear All,







The “Risks of Resilience" article strikes me as providing a good example of a “wicked problem” (Rittel and Webber: Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences 4 (1973), 155-169). Such problems are ubiquitous in ecosystems that are managed for multiple (often conflicting) purposes by stakeholders with multiple (often conflicting) agendas.







In my experience, the concept of “wicked problems” has largely been ignored in planning and decision making, I suspect because of the prevalence of top down thinking and widely held beliefs about the mechanistic nature of causality. This, and the response to the Arctic Resilience Report lead me to wonder about the extent to which the Disaster Resilience community is aware of wicked problems and experience with practical steps to overcome them. Values, equity, scale, hierarchy, power, agency and the fact that wicked problems can only be managed, never solved, are among some of difficulties to be addressed.







The matter of wicked problems in not specifically addressed by the resilience assessment framework although there are some recent papers on the subject in Ecology & Society.







I look forward to hearing people’s thoughts on the matter.







All the best







Mike







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On Jan 21, 2017, at 1:27 , Gemma Sou <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:







Thanks again Ilan, I really enjoyed this.  It reminded me of a piece that Felli and Caster wrote in 2012, in response to the Foresight Report 'Migration and Global Environmental Change'.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227472634_Neoliberalising_adaptation_to_environmental_change_Foresight_or_foreclosure



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Subject: Re: Risks of resilience



Thanks for sharing, Ilan, very interesting...though, in the title, a potentially confusing reference to 'the south' that reads 'the north' in most commentaries (the joys of an arctic perspective).



Cheers



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Exactly the resilience discussion which we need http://arcticjournal.com/opinion/2848/risks-resilience



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Risks of resilience<http://arcticjournal.com/opinion/2848/risks-resilience>

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Rather than promoting the rights of indigenous groups, the idea of 'resilience' ought to be seen as another way keeping them under the south's thumb







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