List of Figures, Tables and Boxes |
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List of Contributors |
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Acknowledgments |
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Foreword |
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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations |
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1 Negotiating Community, Participation, Knowledge and Power in Participatory Research |
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The rise of participatory research in natural resource management in the US |
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Democratization of research and society through participatory research |
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What is participatory research? |
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2 Core Criteria and Assessment of Participatory Research |
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J.D. Wulfhorst, Brian W. Eisenhauer, Stephanie L. Gripne and Johanna M. Ward |
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Community-centered participatory research |
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Participatory research and participatory action research |
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PAR and natural resource management |
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Criterion one: Community-centered control |
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Criterion two: Reciprocal production of knowledge |
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Criterion three: Outcomes and who benefits |
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Conclusion: The design of PAR and measures of its utility |
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3 Challenges to Institutionalizing Participatory Research in Community Forestry in the US |
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Carl Wilmsen and Ajit Krishnaswamy |
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The National Community Forestry Center (NCFC) |
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The Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnerships (CFERP) |
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Promoting institutionalization of participatory research in the CFERP and NCFC |
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Institutional biases against adopting participatory approaches |
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Effects of institutional biases on research practice |
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Conclusion: Challenges to the institutionalization of participatory research |
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4 From Environmental Racism to Civic Environmentalism: Using Participation and Nature to Develop Community in the Belmont Neighborhood of West Philadelphia |
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William F. Elmendorf and Michael Rios |
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Nature's role in community capacity and development |
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Community and community development |
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A deeper look at the natural environment and community development |
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Community capacity: A building block of development |
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African American environmentalism |
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Community environmentalism and participatory research |
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Case study: The Belmont neighborhood in West Philadelphia |
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5 Creating Common Ground: A Collaborative Approach to Environmental Reclamation and Cultural Preservation |
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Jacquelyn Ross, Shannon Brawley, Jan Lowrey and Don L. Hankins |
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History: Setting the context |
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The Cache Creek Conservancy |
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The genesis of the garden |
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The Garden participatory action research (PAR) approach |
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Community action in community-based natural resource management |
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6 Opportunities and Challenges in Community Capacity-building: Lessons from Participatory Research in Macon County, North Carolina |
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Gabriel Cumming, Stacy J. Guffey and Carla Norwood |
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Project site: Macon County, North Carolina |
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Genesis of Little Tennessee Perspectives (LTP) |
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Initial results of the participatory research |
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7 Calibrating Collaboration: Monitoring and Adaptive Management of the Landscape Working Group Process on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests in Western Colorado |
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Antony S. Cheng, Kathleen Bond, Carmine Lockwood and Susan Hansen |
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Approach to monitoring and adaptively managing the collaborative process |
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Interpreting monitoring feedback: Lessons learned and adaptations |
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Lessons learned: Monitoring and adaptively managing a collaborative process as a team |
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8 Inclusion and Exclusion: Immigrant Forest Workers and Participation in Natural Resource Management |
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Heidi L. Ballard and Brinda Sarathy |
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Community forestry in the US |
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Floral greens harvesters in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
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9 Comparing Participatory Ecological Research in Two Contexts: An Immigrant Community and a Native American Community on Olympic Peninsula, Washington |
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Heidi L. Ballard, Joyce A. Trettevick and Don Collins |
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Participatory research on non-timber forest resources (NTFRs) |
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Background and study areas |
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Comparative case studies: Two communities of NTFR users on the Olympic Peninsula |
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The process: Applying a participatory research approach for salal harvest |
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Discussion: Effects of participatory research on communities, research and the management of natural resources |
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Conclusions: Lessons learned about the benefits and challenges of participatory research on non-timber forest resources |
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10 Battle at the Bridge: Using Participatory Approaches to Develop Community Researchers in Ecological Management |
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Jonathan Long, Mae Burnette Delbin Endfield and Candy Lupe |
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Pathways for exchanging knowledge |
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Strategies for resolving tensions on the bridge |
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11 Research on Native Terms: Navigation and Participation Issues for Native Scholars in Community Research |
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Don L. Hankins and Jacquelyn Ross |
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Issues for the native scholar |
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Creating better research practice |
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Strategies for communication in participatory research |
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Cross-pollination and enrichment |
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12 Participation, Relationships and Empowerment |
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Carl Wilmsen, William Elmendorf; Larry Fisher, Jacquelyn Ross, Brinda Sarathy and Gail Wells |
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The quality of participation |
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Balancing rigor and relevance |
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Index |
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