ORCID Profile
0000-0002-7782-9162
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University of Queensland
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Polymers and Plastics | Materials Engineering | Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts | Forestry Biomass and Bioproducts
Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing not elsewhere classified | Plastic Products (incl. Construction Materials) |
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-06-2021
Abstract: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) intends to promote responsible forestry through its certification scheme. The primary engine that drives this promotion is auditing. Audits serve a dual purpose: they make forest managers accountable for their claim of meeting the FSC standard, and they make the actions of auditors and auditee account-able, or able to be put into an account. The latter of these is rarely investigated, despite it being crucial to understanding how FSC audits are done. This article examines FSC forest certification audits as practices where the FSC standards gain meaning. In-depth analysis of these practices enables insight into how different values related to forest certification and auditing are articulated and negotiated in practice, characterizing particular modes of auditing. In this paper, the authors examine the practices of FSC forest management auditors in multi-day audits in Africa and in Spain. Their materials were analyzed and coded using Goffman’s elements of dramaturgy. The authors’ findings show that auditing practices entail a series of nested performances in which the auditors and auditees interact together and in which front stage and back stage performances constantly alternate as auditors and auditees perform for each other and simultaneously for an absent audience. The authors’ analysis demonstrates how in these performances, professional values related to following auditing rules and ensuring that audits are rendered account-able in a particular way take a prominent position. This risks overshadowing the accountability of the FSC system which is ultimately grounded in its ambition to improve forest conservation and management.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2001
Abstract: The news media in general, and newspapers in particular, are supposed to provide a forum for public debate. These expectations of news media take on a heightened relevance in the case of wicked problems precisely because of the irreducible complexity, the inherent tensions, and the multiplicity of stakeholders and conflicting interests involved in such issues. Both their material complexity and lack of consensus make wicked problems difficult to address. This study uses British newspaper coverage of the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak (2003–2008) to determine if under near ideal conditions, newspaper coverage in the UK is compatible with the expectation that newspapers provide a forum that supports constructive societal debate of a complex, wicked problem. We chose to work with avian influenza because it was extensively covered, evidence rich, and not captive to clear partisan constructions. Our frame analysis examined 254 relevant newspaper articles published in seven national circulation outlets between 2003 and 2008. Newspaper coverage did reflect multiple problem definitions and causal interpretations of avian influenza, which is consistent with the expectation that the media inform and open up public debate. Coverage did not, however, link avian flu to other related issues, engage in systemic contestation or problematise structure. Finally, we found that, despite heterogeneous problem definitions, there was near consensus on a single technical solution. This coverage does not appear to support the open, constructive and informed public debate whose promise justifies the privileges given to news media.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 17-12-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-11-2022
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Date: 2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Brill | Wageningen Academic
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-08-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-08-2022
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 19-02-2017
DOI: 10.3390/W9020130
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 11-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10114005
Abstract: Online collaboration to deal with (global) environmental and public health problems continues to grow as the quality of technology for communication improves. In these collaborations, trust is seen as important for sustainable collaborations and organizations. However, face-to-face communication, which is often lacking in these contexts, is seen as a pre-requisite for trust development. Therefore, this paper aims to explore empirically which factors influence the emergence of trust in the early stages of online collaboration. Using the relevant literature, we conducted a series of interviews around projects in the field of public health and the environment on the interface between science and practice. The results show that trust does develop between participants. This trust is strongly influenced by perceived ability and integrity, fostered by reputation, third-party perceptions, and project structure. In these contexts, these types of trust facilitate collaboration but are also influenced by a wider set of aspects such as power, expectations, and uncertainty. However, from the results we also conclude that online collaboration does not create benevolence and a shared identity, thereby limiting further trust development and leading to less strong relations. Strong relations, however, are deemed important to reach creative and innovative solutions and long-term sustainable collaboration and organizations.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-12-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-06-2019
DOI: 10.1111/DPR.12458
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-08-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-03-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-11-2016
Abstract: Barriers to climate change adaptation might not lie so much in ‘gaps’ in scientific or technical understandings but rather in the complexities of social, institutional and cultural transitions in climate change governance. Effective responses to complex environmental issues seem to require ‘co-learning for systemic governance transformations’. However, this process remains poorly understood. This article analyses the performance and orchestration of governance learning for systemic transformation in practice, drawing on ex les from the international climate change adaptation and water governance (CADWAGO) project. We show that in these ex les the interplay of ‘separating’ and ‘connecting’ is central to transforming governance in the European water management landscape. The article concludes that an orientation to boundary work and co-production of knowledge contributes to scientific narratives that can inspire meaningful connective action and move complex socioecological systems into a more sustainable trajectory.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-12-2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2013
Publisher: Wageningen University and Research
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.18174/504295
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 04-11-2016
DOI: 10.3390/W8110510
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2009
DOI: 10.1002/EET.526
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2020
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
Date: 2012
Location: Netherlands
Start Date: 07-2022
End Date: 07-2027
Amount: $4,943,949.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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