1,531
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Opportunities and limitations to social learning for sustainability: empirical insights from a participatory approach to community-based resource management in the Philippines

ORCID Icon, , &
Article: 2239075 | Received 30 Oct 2019, Accepted 16 Jul 2023, Published online: 06 Aug 2023

References

  • Aarts, N., & Van Woerkum, C. (2002). Dealing with uncertainty in solving complex problems. In Wheelbarrows full of frogs (pp. 421–435). Social learning in rural resource management.
  • Araral, E. (2005). Bureaucratic incentives, path dependence, and foreign aid: An empirical institutional analysis of irrigation in the Philippines. Policy Sciences, 38(2–3), 131–157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-005-2309-2
  • Armitage, D., Marschke, M., & Plummer, R. (2008). Adaptive co-management and the paradox of learning. Global Environmental Change, 18(1), 86–98. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.07.002
  • Ballester, A., & Lacroix, K. E. M. (2016). Public participation in water planning in the Ebro River Basin (Spain) and Tucson Basin (U.S., Arizona): impact on water policy and adaptive capacity building. Water (Switzerland), 8(7), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3390/w8070273
  • Baron, R., & Kerr, N. (2003). Group process, group decision, group action 2/E. McGraw-Hill Education.
  • Bendt, P., Barthel, S., & Colding, J. (2013). Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin. Landscape and Urban Planning, 109(1), 18–30.
  • Biedenweg, K., & Monroe, M. (2013). Teasing apart the details: how social learning can affect collective action in the Bolivian Amazon. Human Ecology, 41(2), 239–253. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9535-y
  • Bouwen, R., & Taillieu, T. (2004). Multi-party collaboration as social learning for interdependence: Developin … : EBSCOhost. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 14(4), 137–153. 10.110817506200710779521
  • Brown, H., Peach, C., Buck, L., & James, P. (2008). Governance and social learning in the management of non-wood forest products in community forests in Cameroon. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 7(3), 256.
  • Bull, R., Petts, J., & Evans, J. (2008). Social learning from public engagement: Dreaming the impossible? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 51(5), 701–716. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640560802208140
  • Chambers, R. (1997). Editorial: Responsible well-being — a personal agenda for development. World Development, 25(11), 1743–1754. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(97)10001-8
  • Cleaver, F. (1999). Paradoxes of participation: Questioning participatory approaches to development. Journal of International Development, 11(4), 597–612. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199906)11:4<597::AID-JID610>3.0.CO;2-Q
  • Craps, M., & Maurel, P. (2003). Social learning pool of questions. An instrument to diagnose social learning and IC-tools in European river basin management (Doctoral dissertation, irstea). p. 65.
  • Cundill, G., & Harvey, B. (2019). Unpacking the potential role of social learning in adaptation policy. In Research handbook on climate change adaptation policy (pp.125–137). Edward Elgar.
  • Cundill, G., & Rodela, R. (2012). A review of assertions about the processes and outcomes of social learning in natural resource management. Journal of Environmental Management, 113, 7–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.08.021
  • Damtew, E., van Mierlo, B., Lie, R., Struik, P., Leeuwis, C., Lemaga, B., & Smart, C. (2020). Governing a collective bad: social learning in the management of crop diseases. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 33(1), 111–134. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-019-09518-4
  • Daniels, S. E., & Walker, G. B. (1996). Feature collaborative learning: Improving public deliberation in ecosystem-based management. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 16(96), 71–102.
  • de Kraker, J. (2017). Social learning for resilience in social–ecological systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 28, 100–107. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.09.002
  • Egunyu, F., Reed, M. G., & Sinclair, J. A. (2016). Learning through new approaches to forest governance: evidence from Harrop-Procter Community Forest, Canada. Environmental Management, 57(4), 784–797. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-015-0652-4
  • Ensor, J., & Harvey, B. (2015). Social learning and climate change adaptation: evidence for international development practice. WIREs Climate Change, 6(5), 509–522. http://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.2015.6.issue-5
  • Flyvberg, B. (2011). Managing major projects. Oxford University Press.
  • Folke, C., Hahn, T., Olsson, P., & Norberg, J. (2005). Adaptive governance of social-ecological systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 30(1), 441–473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/energy.2005.30.issue-1
  • Fry, P., & Thieme, S. (2019). A social learning video method: Identifying and sharing successful transformation knowledge for sustainable soil management in Switzerland. Soil Use and Management, 35(1), 185–194. http://doi.org/10.1111/sum.2019.35.issue-1
  • Fujiie, M., Hayami, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (2005). The conditions of collective action for local commons management: the case of irrigation in the Philippines. Agricultural Economics, 33(2), 179–189. http://doi.org/10.1111/agec.2005.33.issue-2
  • García-Nieto, A. P., Huland, E., Quintas-Soriano, C., Iniesta-Arandia, I., García-Llorente, M., Palomo, I., & Martín-López, B. (2019). Evaluating social learning in participatory mapping of ecosystem services. Ecosystems and People, 15(1), 257–268. http://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2019.1667875
  • Garmendia, E., & Stagl, S. (2010). Public participation for sustainability and social learning: Concepts and lessons from three case studies in Europe. Ecological Economics, 69(8), 1712–1722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.03.027
  • Gerlak, A. K., Heikkila, T., Smolinski, S. L., Huitema, D., & Armitage, D. (2017). Learning our way out of environmental policy problems: a review of the scholarship. Policy Sciences, 1–37.
  • Hegde, N, Elias, M., Lamers, H. A. H, & Hegde, M. (2017). Engaging local communities in social learning for inclusive management of native fruit trees in the Central Western Ghats, India. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 26(1), 65–83. http://doi.org/10.1080/14728028.2016.1257398
  • Hermans, F., Klerkx, L., & Roep, D. (2015). Structural conditions for collaboration and learning in innovation networks: Using an innovation system performance lens to analyse agricultural knowledge systems. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 21(1), 35–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2014.991113
  • Ingram, J. (2010). Technical and social dimensions of farmer learning: An analysis of the emergence of reduced tillage systems in England. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 34(2), 183–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/10440040903482589
  • Ison, R., Röling, N., & Watson, D. (2007). Challenges to science and society in the sustainable management and use of water: Investigating the role of social learning. Environmental Science and Policy, 10(6), 499–511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2007.02.008
  • Johannessen, Å., Gerger Swartling, Å., Wamsler, C., Andersson, K., Arran, J. T., Hernández Vivas, D. I., & Stenström, T. A. (2019). Transforming urban water governance through social (triple-loop) learning. Environmental Policy and Governance, 29(2), 144–154. http://doi.org/10.1002/eet.v29.2
  • Johannessen, Å., & Hahn, T. (2013). Social learning towards a more adaptive paradigm? Reducing flood risk in Kristianstad municipality, Sweden. Global Environmental Change, 23(1), 372–381. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.07.009
  • Karubanga, G., Kibwika, P., Okry, F., Sseguya, H., & Yildiz, F. (2017). How farmer videos trigger social learning to enhance innovation among smallholder rice farmers in Uganda. Cogent Food & Agriculture, 3(1), 1368105. http://doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2017.1368105
  • Keen, M., Brown, V. A., & Dyball, R. (2012). Social leaning: A new approach to environmental management. In R. Dyball and M. Keen (Eds.), Social learning in environmental management (pp. 20–38). Routledge.
  • Keen, M., & Mahanty, S. (2006). Learning in sustainable natural resource management: Challenges and opportunities in the pacific. Society and Natural Resources, 19(6), 497–513. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920600663896
  • Keen, M., Mahanty, S., & Sauvage, J. (2006). Sustainability assessment and local government: Achieving innovation through practitioner networks. Local Environment, 11(2), 201–216. http://doi.org/10.1080/13549830600558531
  • Korten, D. C. (1984). People — centered development: Toward a framework. In D. Korten, & K. Klauss (Eds.), People centered development. Connecticut Kumarian Press.
  • Kowarsch, M., Garard, J., Riousset, P., Lenzi, D., Dorsch, M. J., Knopf, B., Harrs, J.-A., & Edenhofer, O. (2016). Scientific assessments to facilitate deliberative policy learning. Palgrave Communications, 2(1), 1–20. http://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2016.92
  • Lam, W F. (1998). Governing irrigation systems in Nepal: institutions, infrastructure, and collective action. Institute for Contemporary Studies.
  • Lebel, L., Grothmann, T., & Siebenhüner, B. (2010). The role of social learning in adaptiveness: insights from water management. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 10(4), 333–353. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-010-9142-6
  • Liamputtong, P. (2013). The science of words and the science of numbers. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Research method in health: Foundations for evidence-based practice (pp. 4–28). Oxford.
  • Lumosi, C. K., Pahl-Wostl, C., & Scholz, G. (2019). Can ‘learning spaces’ shape transboundary management processes? Evaluating emergent social learning processes in the Zambezi basin. Environmental Science & Policy, 97, 67–77. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.04.005
  • Maarleveld, M., & Dabgbégnon, C. (1999). Managing natural resources: A social learning perspective. Agriculture and Human Values, 16(3), 267–280.
  • Maurel, P., Craps, M., Cernesson, F., Raymond, R., Valkering, P., & Ferrand, N. (2007). Concepts and methods for analysing the role of Information and Communication tools (IC-tools) in Social Learning processes for River Basin Management. Environmental Modelling & Software, 22(5), 630–639. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.12.016
  • Measham, T. G. (2013). How long does social learning take? Insights from a longitudinal case study. Society & Natural Resources, 26(12), 1468–1477. http://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2013.799726
  • Meinzen-Dick, R. (1997). Farmer participation in irrigation–20 years of experience and lessons for the future. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 11(2), 103–118. http://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005739528481
  • Moschitz, H., Roep, D., Brunori, G., & Tisenkopfs, T. (2015). Learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture: Processes of Co-evolution, joint reflection and facilitation. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 21(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2014.991111
  • Mostert, E. (2003). The challenge of public participation. Water Policy, 5(2), 179–197.
  • Mostert, E., Pahl-Wostl, C., Rees, Y., Searle, B., Tàbara, D., & Tippett, J. (2007). Social learning in European river-basin management: Barriers and fostering mechanisms from 10 river basins. Ecology and Society, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01960-120119
  • Muro, M., & Jeffrey, P. (2008). A critical review of the theory and application of social learning in participatory natural resource management processes. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 51(3), 325–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640560801977190
  • Muro, M., & Jeffrey, P. (2012). Time to talk? How the structure of dialog processes shapes stakeholder learning in participatory water resources management. Ecology and Society, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04476-170103
  • Murti, R., Mathez-Stiefel, S. L., Garcia, V. R., & Rist, S. (2020). Engaging national policy makers in ecosystem based disaster risk reduction through social learning: Lessons from workshops in Africa, oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 45, 101463. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101463
  • Newig, J., Günther, D., & Pahl-Wostl, C. (2010). Synapses in the network: learning in governance networks in the context of environmental management. Ecology and Society, 15(4). http://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03713-150424
  • Noguera-Méndez, P., Molera, L., & Semitiel-García, M. (2016). The role of social learning in fostering farmers’ pro-environmental values and intentions. Journal of Rural Studies, 46, 81–92. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.06.003
  • North, D. C. (1990). Institutions, institutional change and economic performance. Cambridge University Press.
  • Olsson, A., Ebert, J. P., Banaji, M. R., & Phelps, E. A. (2005). The role of social groups in the persistence of learned fear. Science, 309(5735), 785–787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1113551
  • Olsson, P., Folke, C., & Hahn, T. (2004). Social-ecological transformation for ecosystem management: the development of adaptive co-management of a wetland landscape in southern Sweden. Ecology and Society, 9(4). http://doi.org/10.5751/ES-00683-090402
  • Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action. Cambridge university press.
  • Ostrom, E. (2005). Understanding institutional diversity. Princeton University Press.
  • Ostrom, E. (2009). A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science, 325(5939), 419–422. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172133
  • Pahl-Wost, C., & Hare, M. (2004). Processes of social learning in integrated water management. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 14, 193–206.
  • Pahl-wostl, C. (2002). Towards sustainability in the water sector - The importance of human actors and processes of social lear.pdf, 64, 394–411.
  • Pahl-Wostl, C. (2006). The importance of social learning in restoring the multifunctionality of rivers and floodplains. Ecology and Society, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01542-110110
  • Pahl-Wostl, C. (2007). Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change. Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change: A North-South Analysis, 49–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5591-1-4
  • Pahl-wostl, C., Craps, M., Dewulf, A., Mostert, E., Tabara, D., & Taillieu, T. (2007). Social Learning and Water Resources Management, 12(2).
  • Pahl-Wostl, C., Mostert, E., & Tàbara, D. (2008). The growing importance of social learning in water resources management and sustainability science. Ecology and Society, 13(1). http://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02352-130124
  • Pretty, J. (1995). Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture. World Development, 23(8), 1247–1263. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692011000700014
  • Ragin, C. C., & Amoroso, L. M. (2011). Constructing social research: The unity and diversity of method. Pine Forge Press.
  • Reed, M. S., Evely, A. C., Cundill, G., Fazey, I., Glass, J., Laing, A., Newig, J., Parrish, B., Prell, C., Raymond, C., & Stringer, L. C. (2010). What is social learning?. Ecology and Society, 15(4). http://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03564-1504r01
  • Reed, M. S., Graves, A., Dandy, N., Posthumus, H., Hubacek, K., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C. H., & Stringer, L. C. (2009). Who’s in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. Journal of Environmental Management, 90(5), 1933–1949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.01.001
  • Rist, S., Chidambaranathan, M., Escobar, C., Wiesmann, U., & Zimmermann, A. (2007). Moving from sustainable management to sustainable governance of natural resources: The role of social learning processes in rural India, Bolivia and Mali. Journal of Rural Studies, 23(1), 23–37. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2006.02.006
  • Rist, S., Chiddambaranathan, M., Escobar, C., & Wiesmann, U. (2006). It was hard to come to mutual understanding … ”-The multidimensionality of social learning processes concerned with sustainable natural resource use in India, Africa and Latin America. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 19(3), 219–237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-006-9014-8
  • Rodela, R. (2011). Social learning and natural resource management: the emergence of three research perspectives. Ecology and Society, 16(4). http://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04554-160430
  • Rodela, R., Cundill, G., & Wals, A. E. (2012). An analysis of the methodological underpinnings of social learning research in natural resource management. Ecological Economics, 77, 16–26. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.02.032
  • Röling, N. (2002). Beyond the aggregation of individual preferences: moving from multiple to distributed cognition in resource dilemmas. In C. Leeuwis, and R. Pyburn (Eds). Wheelbarrows full of frogs: social learning in rural resource management (pp. 25–47). Royal Van Gorkum.
  • Romina, R. (2014). Social learning, natural resource management, and participatory activities: A reflection on construct development and testing. NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 69(1), 15–22. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2014.03.004
  • Salvini, G., van Paassen, A., Ligtenberg, A., Carrero, G. C., & Bregt, A. K. (2016). A role-playing game as a tool to facilitate social learning and collective action towards Climate Smart Agriculture: Lessons learned from Apuí, Brazil. Environmental Science & Policy, 63, 113–121. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.05.016
  • Scholz, G., Dewulf, A., & Pahl-Wostl, C. (2014). An analytical framework of social learning facilitated by participatory methods. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 27(6), 575–591. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-013-9310-z
  • Schusler, T. M., Decker, D. J., & Pfeffer, M. J. (2003). Social learning for collaborative natural resource management. Society and Natural Resources, 16(4), 309–326. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920390178874
  • Schwartz-Shea, P., & Yanow, D. (2006). Interpretation and method. Empirical research methods and the interpretive turn. Routledge.
  • Shaw, A., & Kristjanson, P. M. (2013). Catalysing learning for development and climate change: An exploration of social learning and social differentiation in CGIAR. CCAFS Working Paper.
  • Sinclair, A. J., Kumnerdpet, W., & Moyer, J. M. (2013, February). Learning sustainable water practices through participatory irrigation management in Thailand. In Natural Resources Forum (Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 55-66).
  • Tang, S. Y. (1992). Institutions and collective action: Self governance in irrigation. Institute for Contemporary Studies Press.
  • Tippett, J., Searle, B., Pahl-wostl, C., & Rees, Y. (2005). Social learning in public participation in river basin management — early findings from HarmoniCOP. European Case Studies, 8, 287–299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2005.03.003
  • Totin, E., Leeuwis, C., van Mierlo, B., Mongbo, R. L., Stroosnijder, L, & Kossou, D. K. (2014). Drivers of cooperative choice: canal maintenance in smallholder irrigated rice production in Benin. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 12(3), 334–354. http://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2014.909644
  • Tran, T. A., James, H., & Pittock, J. (2018). Social learning through rural communities of practice: Empirical evidence from farming households in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 16, 31–44. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2017.11.002
  • Tran, T. A., & Rodela, R. (2019). Integrating farmers’ adaptive knowledge into flood management and adaptation policies in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A social learning perspective. Global Environmental Change, 55, 84–96. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.02.004
  • Van Epp, M., & Garside, B. (2019). Towards an evidence base on the value of social learning-oriented approaches in the context of climate change and food security. Environmental Policy and Governance, 29(2), 118–131. http://doi.org/10.1002/eet.v29.2
  • Vermillion, D. L. (1997). Impacts of irrigation management transfer. A review of evidence. IWMI.
  • Wade, R. (1988). The management of irrigation systems: How to evoke trust and avoid prisoner's dilemma. World Development, 16(4), 489–500. http://doi.org/10.1016/0305-750X(88)90199-4
  • Wals, A. E., & Rodela, R. (2014). Social learning towards sustainability: Problematic, perspectives and promise. NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, 69(1), 1–3. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.njas.2014.04.001
  • Webler, T., Kastenholz, H., & Renn, O. (1995). Public participation in impact assessment. A Social Learning Perspective, 9255(95), 443–463.
  • Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wenger, E. (2010). Communities of practice and social learning systems: The career of a concept. In Social learning systems and communities of practice (pp. 179–198). Springer.
  • Wondolleck, J. M., & Yaffee, S. L. (2000). Making collaboration work: Lessons from innovation in natural resource management. Island Press.
  • Yin, R. K. (2009). Case study research: Design and methods. Sage.
  • Yin, R. K. (2014). Case study research: Design and methods (applied social research methods (p. 312). Sage publications.
  • Yukl, G. A. (1998). Leadership in organizations. Pearson Education India.