4 results match your criteria: "Mekong Region Futures Institute[Affiliation]"
"Health in" and "Health of" Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems.
Front Public Health
February 2021
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Article Synopsis
- The last two decades have shown strong links between human health, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and agriculture, exacerbated by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- While there are calls for integrated approaches to handle emerging zoonotic diseases, challenges in defining resilience in health contexts hinder their practical application.
- The proposed framework highlights the importance of socio-ecological system health (SESH) and emphasizes the need for collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and communities to manage health and ecosystem resilience effectively.
Systems Thinking in Practice: Participatory Modeling as a Foundation for Integrated Approaches to Health.
Front Vet Sci
December 2018
ASTRE, CIRAD, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
One Health (OH), EcoHealth (EH), and Planetary Health (PH) share an interest in transdisciplinary efforts that bring together scientists, citizens, government and private sectors to implement contextualized actions that promote adaptive health management across human, animal and ecosystem interfaces. A key operational element underlying these Integrated Approaches to Health (IAH) is use of Systems Thinking as a set of tools for integration. In this paper we discuss the origins and epistemology of systems thinking and argue that participatory modeling, informed by both systems theory and expertise in facilitating engagement and social learning, can help ground IAH theoretically and support its development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluating participatory research: Framework, methods and implementation results.
J Environ Manage
July 2015
Mekong Region Futures Institute, Naga House, Vientiane, Lao Democratic People's Republic; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, 41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park QLD 4102, Australia. Electronic address:
This paper describes a structured participatory process and associated evaluation protocol developed to detect systems learning by decision makers involved in the management of natural resources. A series of facilitated participatory workshops were conducted to investigate learning when decision makers and influencers were confronted with the multiple, complex interactions arising from decisions concerned with the nexus of water, food and energy security. The participatory process and evaluation of learning were trialled in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), where integrated scientific evidence was systematically presented to challenge existing beliefs concerned with the effectiveness of proposed policy actions and development investments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTowards understanding participatory processes: Framework, application and results.
J Environ Manage
July 2015
Mekong Region Futures Institute, Naga House, House 87, Unit 7, Mixay Village, Chantabouly District, Vientiane Capital City, People's Democratic Republic of Lao. Electronic address:
Many scholars point out that in complex and contested decision-making and planning situations, participatory processes have clear advantages over "traditional" or non-participatory processes. Improving our understanding of which participatory process elements or combination of elements contribute to specific outcomes demands a comparative diagnosis of multiple case studies based on a systematic framework. This paper describes the theoretical foundation and application of a diagnostic framework developed for the description and comparative analysis of participatory processes.
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