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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin
SUMMARY:From dragonfly eyes to fish eyes: a summary of ways to underst
 and social-ecological systems across disciplinary lines\, Chaos & Comp
 lex Systems Seminar\, Bethany Laursen\, UW Department of Forest and Wi
 ldlife Ecology
DESCRIPTION:When researching approaches to complex\, social-ecological
  problems\, the plethora of interdisciplinary paradigms can leave even
  savvy academicians confused or more entrenched in familiar ideas than
  innovative solutions. University extension agents\, often trained in 
 traditional disciplines at the masteraEuroTMs degree level and daily s
 urrounded by tangible rather than theoretical entities\, are even hard
 er pressed to understand how these new fields relate to more familiar 
 ones. However\, extension agents are also precisely the people most li
 kely to integrate various academic approaches by working in complex\, 
 real-world problem-solving situations. It is thus useful and necessary
  for agents to be able to compare\, contrast\, and integrate the vario
 us epistemologies encountered in social-ecological systems research. I
  demonstrate a decision support tool that agents can use for this purp
 ose with six example fields of inquiry (environmental history\, politi
 cal ecology\, social-ecological systems theory\, rural sociology\, eco
 logical economics\, and adaptive co-management). In addition to aiding
  an individualaEuroTMs understanding\, the tool also promotes collecti
 ve learning and collaboration by enabling shared understanding\; each 
 collaborator can use it to become more aware of their own epistemology
  and those of others. Through further group negotiation\, this awarene
 ss minimizes epistemological aEurooeblind-spotsaEuro and vitriol\, and
  it maximizes adaptive problem solving. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=2642
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