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Impact through participatory research approaches: an archetype analysis
Ecology and Society ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 , DOI: 10.5751/es-11517-250315
Theresa Tribaldos , Christoph Oberlack , Flurina Schneider

Participatory research approaches are often assumed to be effective for addressing sustainability problems that involve a substantial amount of complexity, uncertainty, and conflicting values. The adaptive and integrative character of these approaches engages various scientific and nonscientific actors in collective knowledge production processes. An increasing number of case studies documents pathways to impact triggered by participatory research approaches. However, cumulative learning across cases about the impacts of participatory research projects remains limited to date. One question is of particular interest, namely how and when different intensities of actor interactions in participatory research effectively contribute to advancing sustainable development.In this paper we address this knowledge gap by presenting a meta-analysis of 29 case studies of participatory research projects in agricultural settings. The study protocol follows systematic case retrieval and selection, coding, and data analysis through formal concept analysis. We introduce and utilize a new diagnostic framework to analyze the links between the intensity of actor interactions,sustainability impact goals, context conditions, and sustainability impacts. The results show that three archetypical patterns describe how the 29 case studies report that participatory research projects generate sustainability impacts: learning, knowledge products, and real-world transformations. Impact in all three patterns is consistently associated with higher intensities of interactions, i.e., coproduction and less consultation but not mere information. The most frequently reported impact is learning in a context of resources and environment problems. In this configuration, coproduction of knowledge is mainly used during the second research phase. However,the results also show that coproduction in the final phase of a participatory research project is more often used to achieve the impact of real-world transformations, which presumably involves more complexity and contestation than other impacts. We conclude that participatory research projects, which aim at transformative impacts in complex settings beyond knowledge products and learning,need to sustain high intensities of actor interactions in knowledge coproduction throughout all research phases to achieve their sustainability impact goals.

中文翻译:

通过参与式研究方法产生影响:原型分析

参与式研究方法通常被认为可以有效解决涉及大量复杂性、不确定性和相互冲突的价值观的可持续性问题。这些方法的适应性和综合特性使各种科学和非科学参与者参与到集体知识生产过程中。越来越多的案例研究记录了参与式研究方法引发的影响途径。然而,迄今为止,关于参与式研究项目影响的案例累积学习仍然有限。一个问题特别令人感兴趣,即参与式研究中不同强度的参与者互动如何以及何时有效地促进了可持续发展。在本文中,我们通过对农业环境中参与性研究项目的 29 个案例研究进行元分析来解决这一知识差距。研究方案通过正式的概念分析遵循系统的案例检索和选择、编码和数据分析。我们引入并利用新的诊断框架来分析参与者互动强度、可持续性影响目标、环境条件和可持续性影响之间的联系。结果表明,三个原型模式描述了 29 个案例研究如何报告参与式研究项目产生可持续性影响:学习、知识产品和现实世界的转变。所有三种模式的影响始终与更高强度的交互相关,即共同生产和更少的咨询,但不仅仅是信息。最常报告的影响是在资源和环境问题的背景下学习。在这种配置中,知识的共同生产主要用于第二个研究阶段。然而,结果也表明,参与式研究项目最后阶段的共同生产更常用于实现现实世界转型的影响,这可能比其他影响涉及更多的复杂性和争议。我们得出的结论是,参与式研究项目旨在在知识产品和学习之外的复杂环境中产生变革性影响,需要在所有研究阶段维持知识共同生产中参与者的高强度互动,以实现其可持续性影响目标。在这种配置中,知识的共同生产主要用于第二个研究阶段。然而,结果也表明,参与式研究项目最后阶段的共同生产更常用于实现现实世界转型的影响,这可能比其他影响涉及更多的复杂性和争议。我们得出的结论是,参与式研究项目旨在在知识产品和学习之外的复杂环境中产生变革性影响,需要在所有研究阶段维持知识共同生产中参与者的高强度互动,以实现其可持续性影响目标。在这种配置中,知识的共同生产主要用于第二个研究阶段。然而,结果也表明,参与式研究项目最后阶段的共同生产更常用于实现现实世界转型的影响,这可能比其他影响涉及更多的复杂性和争议。我们得出的结论是,参与式研究项目旨在在知识产品和学习之外的复杂环境中产生变革性影响,需要在所有研究阶段维持知识共同生产中参与者的高强度互动,以实现其可持续性影响目标。结果还表明,参与式研究项目最后阶段的联合生产更常用于实现现实世界转型的影响,这可能比其他影响涉及更多的复杂性和争议。我们得出的结论是,参与式研究项目旨在在知识产品和学习之外的复杂环境中产生变革性影响,需要在所有研究阶段维持知识共同生产中参与者的高强度互动,以实现其可持续性影响目标。结果还表明,参与式研究项目最后阶段的联合生产更常用于实现现实世界转型的影响,这可能比其他影响涉及更多的复杂性和争议。我们得出的结论是,参与式研究项目旨在在知识产品和学习之外的复杂环境中产生变革性影响,需要在所有研究阶段维持知识共同生产中参与者的高强度互动,以实现其可持续性影响目标。
更新日期:2020-01-01
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