Mark Reed

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the development of participatory approaches in different disciplinary and geographical contexts, and reviews typologies that can be used to categorise and select participatory methods.

TL;DR: This paper asks how and why stakeholder analysis should be conducted for participatory natural resource management research, and proposes new tools and combinations of methods that can more effectively identify and categorise stakeholders and help understand their inter-relationships.

TL;DR: Social learning is increasingly becoming a normative goal in natural resource management and policy, but there remains little consensus over its meaning or theoretical basis as discussed by the authors. This lack of conceptual clarity has limited our capacity to assess whether social learning has occurred, and if so, what kind of learning has taken place, to what extent, between whom, when, and how.

TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of participatory processes on sustainability indicator identification and environmental management in three disparate case studies to draw three primary conclusions.

TL;DR: It is argued that there is no single optimum approach for integrating local and scientific knowledge and a shift in science is encouraged from the development of knowledge integration products to theDevelopment of problem-focussed, knowledge integration processes.