Browsing by Author "Rogers, Kevin"

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Bridging the Science-Management Divide: Moving from Unidirectional Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Interfacing and Sharing
(2006) Roux, Dirk; Rogers, Kevin; Biggs, Harry; Ashton, Peter; Sergeant, Anne
"Sustainable ecosystem management relies on a diverse and multi-faceted knowledge system in which techniques are continuously updated to reflect current understanding and needs. The challenge is to minimize delay as ideas flow from intent through scientific capability, and finally to implementation to achieve desired outcomes. The best way to do this is by setting the stage for the flow of knowledge between researchers, policy makers, and resource managers. The cultural differences between these groups magnify the challenge. This paper highlights the importance of the tacit dimension of knowledge, and how this renders the concept of knowledge transfer much less useful than the concepts of information transfer and technology transfer. Instead of knowledge transfer, we propose that 'co-production' of knowledge through collaborative learning between 'experts' and 'users' is a more suitable approach to building a knowledge system for the sustainable management of ecosystems. This can be achieved through knowledge interfacing and sharing, but requires a shift from a view of knowledge as a 'thing' that can be transferred to viewing knowledge as a "process of relating" that involves negotiation of meaning among partners. Lessons from informal communities of practice provide guidance on how to nurture and promote knowledge interfacing between science and management in R&D programs."
Managing Science/Management Partnerships: A Challenge of Adaptive Management: A response to: Walters. 1997. 'Challenges in Adaptive Management of Riparian and Coastal Ecosystems'
(1998) Rogers, Kevin
"Although Walters' synthesis was not encouraging for those embarking on programs of adaptive management, it is good to see the sorts of problems many of us experience emerging from unpublished practice. This can only lead to increased implementation of adaptive management."
The Value of Visions and Art of Visionaries: A response to: Holling. 1999. 'Visions: A Personal Essay'
(2000) Rogers, Kevin; Roux, Dirk; Biggs, Harry
"The ecologists and managers who attended a workshop in the Kruger National Park to develop an adaptive management process still find themselves in awe of the value of the vision they sketched with stakeholders at that time. It continues to provide excitement and stimulus as they build and shape the process to fit the unique and changing circumstances in South Africa. "For this reason, Holling's (1999) editorial gave us a jolt! Suspicion of people with visions comes as a surprise to us. Are we missing something that lies behind the editorial? Are we 'blind' and 'deaf' too? We think not and share here our experience and excitement in the spirit of what we see as Holling's vision for Conservation Ecology."