TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning about forest ownership and management issues in Europe while travelling
T2 - The Travellab approach
AU - Feliciano, D.
AU - Blagojević, D.
AU - Böhling, K.
AU - Hujala, T.
AU - Lawrence, A.
AU - Lidestav, G.
AU - Ludvig, A.
AU - Turner, T.
AU - Weiss, G.
AU - Zivojinovic, I.
N1 - Article produced while at Forest Research, Northern Research Station; full text available from https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - Forest management, with its diverse land-use and institutional pressures, can be considered a “wicked problem”. Transdisciplinarity and social learning are considered relevant approaches of investigating “wicked problems” because they favour creative solutions, stakeholder involvement and the reframing of problems. Taking this into account, participant researchers in the COST Action FACESMAP developed the Travellab approach to enhance their understanding of forest ownership, management and policy across Europe. The Travellab favours interaction in a structured way, collection and analysis of the information discussed, reflection about the process and the topics learnt, and reframing of the discussion topics and of the interaction techniques. This article explores the effectiveness of the Travellab to enhance researchers’ learning during interactions with stakeholders. The evidence presented indicates that the Travellab improved joint learning among researchers and enriched the quality of knowledge transferred, but did not effectively support knowledge exchange. Nevertheless, the Travellab added greater value to FACESMAP field visits when compared to ordinary field trips embedded in project meetings. The implementation of the Travellab approach in research projects of all sizes and international networks to improve group and individual learning is, therefore, highly recommended.
AB - Forest management, with its diverse land-use and institutional pressures, can be considered a “wicked problem”. Transdisciplinarity and social learning are considered relevant approaches of investigating “wicked problems” because they favour creative solutions, stakeholder involvement and the reframing of problems. Taking this into account, participant researchers in the COST Action FACESMAP developed the Travellab approach to enhance their understanding of forest ownership, management and policy across Europe. The Travellab favours interaction in a structured way, collection and analysis of the information discussed, reflection about the process and the topics learnt, and reframing of the discussion topics and of the interaction techniques. This article explores the effectiveness of the Travellab to enhance researchers’ learning during interactions with stakeholders. The evidence presented indicates that the Travellab improved joint learning among researchers and enriched the quality of knowledge transferred, but did not effectively support knowledge exchange. Nevertheless, the Travellab added greater value to FACESMAP field visits when compared to ordinary field trips embedded in project meetings. The implementation of the Travellab approach in research projects of all sizes and international networks to improve group and individual learning is, therefore, highly recommended.
KW - Forest management
KW - Social learning
KW - Stakeholder
KW - Transdisciplinarity
KW - Wicked problems
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U2 - 10.1016/j.forpol.2018.09.005
DO - 10.1016/j.forpol.2018.09.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053659419
SN - 1389-9341
VL - 99
SP - 32
EP - 42
JO - Forest Policy and Economics
JF - Forest Policy and Economics
ER -