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Science Education for Civic Participation: Adaptive Learning to Enhance Community Resilience. Exploring a role for SECP in community resilience building, and in community responses to catastrophe in urban areas. Keith G. Tidball, Cornell University Dept. of Natural resources 06 April 2006. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Science Education for Civic Participation: Adaptive Learning
to Enhance Community Resilience
Exploring a role for SECP in community resilience building, and in community responses to
catastrophe in urban areas.
Keith G. Tidball, Cornell UniversityDept. of Natural resources
06 April 2006
Understanding the loss, creation, and maintenance of resilience through the process of co-discovery is at
the heart of sustainability1.
What is meant by “resilience?” “co-discovery” and “Adaptive Learning” What is the role or application for SECP?
1 (Gunderson and Holling 2002, Walker et al 2002).
SECP as adaptive learning provides a model to explore how individual creativity, social memory, and institutions of knowledge are interconnected. How learning, especially science learning, leads to building adaptive capacity for increasing the “resilience” of social-ecological systems is the question explored in the proposed paper/chapter.
Background2
Linkages between ecological and social systems broadly recognized.
Theories of how to confront and adaptively manage uncertainty in complex systems influence natural resource management.
Change and surprise are inherent properties of complex systems.
Timing and resilience determine the outcomes of cycles.
2 Adapted from Clark, D. (in prep.) Adaptive Cycles and the Resilience of the Parks Canada Agency. For submission to Conservation Ecology.
Resilience
Resilience is determined by: a system’s ability to buffer or absorb
shocks its capacity for learning and self-
organization to adapt to change
...the capacity of a system to undergo disturbance and maintain both its existing functions and controls and its capacity for future change.
Holling 1973; Gunderson 2000; Carpenter et al. 2001; Gunderson and Holling 2002
Adaptive Cycle
Panarchies
Adaptive cycles exist in connected, nested hierarchies- termed “panarchies”- across scales of time and space
Resilience Management3
Learning to live with change and uncertainty Nurturing diversity for reorganization and
renewal Combining different types of knowledge for
learning Creating opportunity for self-organization
HOW MIGHT SECP CONTRIBUTE ?
3 Berkes et al. (2003); Folke et al. (2003)
Adaptive Learning4
♦ learning a three stage process♦ need to understand both the social and technical aspects of systems♦ Learning must be demand-led and appropriate
4 Garaway, C.J. and Arthur, R.I. 2004. Adaptive learning: a practical framework for the implementation of adaptiveco-management— lessons from selected experiences in South and Southeast Asia. MRAG Ltd. London
What is it?
SECP as Adaptive Learning? Can SECP be thought of as a kind of “adaptive learning,”
a way to build knowledge? Rather than dealing with learning as a purely individual or
a collective phenomenon, can I situate learning within the social-ecological system and consider it as a systems issue?
If adaptive learning provides a model to explore how individual creativity, social memory, and institutions of knowledge are interconnected, how might SECP as adaptive learning lead to building adaptive capacity for increasing the “resilience” of social-ecological systems?
Conclusion
SECP as adaptive learning provides a model to explore how individual creativity, social memory, and institutions of knowledge are interconnected. How learning, especially science learning, leads to building adaptive capacity for increasing the “resilience” of social-ecological systems (Walker et al. 2002) is the question explored in the proposed paper.