Tackling the tangle of environmental conflict: Complexity, controversy, and collaborative learning (original) (raw)

Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 2008

Abstract

Environmental conflict situations are typically messy; a tangle of complexity, controversy, and uncertainty. As a means for addressing environmental conflict and decision situations and making progress on matters of substance, relationship, and procedure, Collaborative Learning integrates concepts and techniques from systems thinking, negotiation, experiential learning, and participatory communication. This essay establishes a context for understanding the creation and evolution of the CL methodology. Following that discussion, the Collaborative Learning approach is explained. A current comprehensive project in forest planning provides a case illustration. Introduction A provocative research partnership has been cultivated between Norway's University of Bergen and Spain's Autonomous University of Barcelona. The program, "Management of Complexity, Scientific Uncertainty and Public Participation in Environmental and Landscape Governance in Nordland and Catalunya," ha...

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