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Enabling political legitimacy and conceptual integration for climate change adaptation research within an agricultural bureaucracy: a systemic inquiry
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posted on 2019-10-01, 00:00 authored by A Grant, R Ison, Robert FaggianRobert Faggian, Victor SpositoVictor SpositoThe value of using systems approaches, for situations framed as ‘super wicked’, is examined from the perspective of research managers and stakeholders in a state-based climate change adaptation (CCA) program (CliChAP). Polycentric drivers influencing the development of CCA research pre-2010 in Victoria, Australia are reflected on, using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to generate a boundary critique of CCA research as a human activity system. We experienced the complexity of purpose with research practices pulling in different directions, reflected on the appropriateness of agricultural bureaucracies’ historical new public management (NPM) practices, and focused on realigning management theory with emerging demands for adaptation research skills and capability. Our analysis conceptualised CliChAP as a subsystem, generating novelty in a wider system, concerned with socio-ecological co-evolution. Constraining/enabling conditions at the time dealing with political legitimacy and conceptual integration were observed as potential catalysts for innovation in research management towards better handling of uncertainty as a social process using systemic thinking in practice (StiP).
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Systemic practice and action researchVolume
32Issue
5Pagination
573 - 600Publisher
SpringerLocation
New York, N.Y.Publisher DOI
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1094-429XLanguage
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLCUsage metrics
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