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Measuring Short Food Supply Chain Sustainability: A Selection of Attributes and Indicators through a Qualitative Approach

Agriculture, 2023
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are one of the most direct approaches to more directly connecting consumers with producers. The scaling-up of SFSCs is often challenged by critical issues which can be overcome with identification of the most sustainable,
Patrizia Borsotto, Roberto Cagliero, Francesca Giarè, Giorgia Giordani, Rita Iacono, Ilenia Manetti, Roberta Sardone   +6 more
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Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

Ecology and Society, 2010
Participatory research has in recent years become a popular approach for problem-oriented scientific research that aims to tackle complex problems in a real management context.
Darya Hirsch, Geraldine Abrami, Raffaele Giordano, Stefan Liersch, Nilufar Matin, Maja Schlüter   +5 more
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Comparing group deliberation to other forms of preference aggregation in valuing ecosystem services

Ecology and Society, 2017
Deliberative methods for valuing ecosystem services are hypothesized to yield group preferences that differ systematically from those that would be obtained through calculative aggregation of the preferences of participating individuals.
Mackenzie B. Murphy, Georgia Mavrommati, Varun Rao. Mallampalli, Richard B. Howarth, Mark E. Borsuk   +4 more
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Quantitative Methods in Participatory Research [PDF]

Nouvelles pratiques sociales, 2013
In this paper, we suggest that participatory research (PR) is neither a research methodology, nor uniquely associated with qualitative methods, but rather an approach to research through which stakeholders can implement quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods study designs.
Macaulay, Ann C., Jagosh, Justin, Pluye, Pierre, Bush, Paula L., Salsberg, Jon   +4 more
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“Realizing the problem wasn’t necessarily me”: the meaning of childhood adversity and resilience in the lives of autistic adults

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2022
Purpose There is evidence that childhood adversity is correlated with poor health outcomes across the lifespan. Resilience results when internal and external protective factors in childhood mitigate this relationship.
Gabrielle A. Heselton, Gwen R. Rempel, David B. Nicholas   +2 more
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Constrained spatial imaginaries of smallholder farmers: perspectives from South Punjab, Pakistan

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences
Research on spatial imaginaries, or collective sense-making processes relating to spaces and the material practices these frame, has shed light on smallholder farmers’ transformative power to facilitate sustainability transitions.
Mehwish Zuberi, Michael Spies, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen   +2 more
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Participatory Video (remote, online): Participatory research methods for sustainability ‐ toolkit #2

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2022
Participatory Video (PV) is geared towards fostering dialogue around a shared issue. Videos developed with smartphones and similar devices are created by participants as a tool for communication and reflection, which can support many different steps along a participatory research journey.
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Integration and Implementation Sciences: Building a New Specialization

Ecology and Society, 2005
Developing a new specialization - Integration and Implementation Sciences - may be an effective way to draw together and significantly strengthen the theory and methods necessary to tackle complex societal issues and problems.
Gabriele Bammer
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The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The HIT network was established in 2000 to create a population‐based structure aiming to improve survival rates and reduce late effects for children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors by conducting comprehensive clinical trials.
Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Gudrun Fleischhack, Stephan Tippelt, Pablo Hernáiz‐Driever, Olaf Witt, Astrid Gnekow, Christof Kramm, Matthias Eyrich, Johannes E. A. Wolf, Hermann Müller, Carsten Friedrich, Uwe R. Kordes, Denise Obrecht‐Sturm, Petra Ketteler, Barbara von Zezschwitz, Pascal Johann, Dominik Sturm, Karoline Nemes, Stefan Schönberger, Till Milde, Brigitte Bison, Monika Warmuth‐Metz, Torsten Pietsch, Ulrich Schüller, Arend Koch, David Capper, Martin Hasselblatt, Christian Thomas, Christian Hagel, Stefan M. Pfister, Felix Sahm, David T. W. Jones, Martin U. Schuhmann, Jürgen Krauss, Pedram Emami, Ahmed El Damaty, Rolf D. Kortmann, Rudolf Schwarz, Jürgen Debus, Mechthild Krause, Fabian Pohl, Holger Ottensmeier, Lisa Bußenius, Katja Baust, Andreas Faldum, Cecile Ronckers, Desiree Grabow, Martin Benesch, Thomas Perwein, Karin Dieckmann, Irene Slavc, Johannes Gojo, Nicolas U. Gerber, André O. von Bueren, Katrin Scheinemann, Gabriele Calaminus, Beate Timmermann, Ulrich‐Wilhelm Thomale, Martin Mynarek   +59 more
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“Facing Our Fears”: Using facilitated film viewings to engage communities in HIV research involving MSM in Kenya

Cogent Medicine, 2017
Kenya is a generally homophobic country where homosexuality is criminalised and people who engage in same sex sexuality face stigma and discrimination.
Bernadette Kombo, Salla Sariola, Evanson Gichuru, Sassy Molyneux, Eduard J. Sanders, Elise van der Elst   +5 more
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