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Rethinking Partnerships with the Aim of Producing Knowledge with Practical Relevance: A Case Study in the Field of Ecological Restoration

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dc.contributor.author Gonzalo-Turpin, Heloise en_US
dc.contributor.author Couix, Nathalie en_US
dc.contributor.author Hazard, Laurent en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:56:06Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:56:06Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-10 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-02-10 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3001
dc.description.abstract "Researchers in conservation biology and restoration ecology often work in partnership with local actors to increase the practical relevance of the knowledge they produce. Although an academic mode of knowledge production is essential in research for a better understanding of biological systems, it often fails to produce frameworks and methodologies having practical relevance that can be used in conservation and restoration programs. The involvement of researchers in collective plans of action is supposed to contribute to the production of a more contextualized form of knowledge. In this paper, we report our experience of partnership research in an ecological restoration project. We show that changing our mode of knowledge production to one that produces knowledge having more practical relevance requires a particular spectrum of partners and reflexive communication between all the partners. We advocate the need for participatory approaches that favor collective and reflexive processes of problem finding and problem solving in conservation and restoration projects. Putting such processes into practice is not only a challenge for researchers but also for their partners, and presupposes a profound transformation of their roles." en_US
dc.subject conservation en_US
dc.subject biology en_US
dc.subject genetic resources en_US
dc.subject seeds en_US
dc.subject stakeholders en_US
dc.title Rethinking Partnerships with the Aim of Producing Knowledge with Practical Relevance: A Case Study in the Field of Ecological Restoration en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.subject.sector General & Multiple Resources en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 13 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth January en_US


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