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Re-connecting with a Recovering River through Imaginative Engagement

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2010
Imaginative engagement as a mode of citizen participation - the use of arts-based methods to involve people actively in shared learning experiences - holds promise as a means to increase awareness and understanding, and to build capacity, for sustainable
Paul Selman   +3 more
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Participatory design methods in telemedicine research [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2016
Healthcare systems require a paradigm shift in the way healthcare services are delivered to counteract demographic changes in patient populations, expanding technological developments and the increasing complexity of healthcare. Participatory design (PD) is a methodology that promotes the participation of users in the design process of potential ...
Clemensen, Jane   +4 more
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Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services (CESs) and key urban landscape features: a pilot study for land use policy and planning review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021
Cultural ecosystem services (CESs), despite providing multiple non-material benefits associated with human well-being, have been overlooked in urban planning.
Laura Bachi   +3 more
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Participatory Methods: the Exemplary Case of the Bela Vista “Island” in Porto (2013-2017)

open access: yesСоциологический журнал, 2022
The authors summarize the origin and evolution of the urban “island” of Bela Vista in Porto, Portugal, since the 19th century. Despite local residents mobilizing in the wake of the revolution of April 25th 1974 in the context of the urban housing ...
Manuel Carlos Silva   +3 more
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SOCIAL WORK AND PARTICIPATORY METHOD OF EMPOWERING –PHOTOVOICE [PDF]

open access: yesTiltai, 2021
This article is the overall review of photovoice, the strategy of participatory action research hat relies on potential of photography. Therefore, the history, inspirations and application examples are discussed. The notion of the article is the argument that photovoice is a valuable method that could be applied in social work, which is focused on ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Policy for sustainable consumption – an assessment of Swedish municipalities

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
IntroductionMunicipalities have a key role to play in developing and implementing policy for sustainable consumption, yet the evidence on the extent of municipalities’ work in this area and the constraining and enabling factors they face in this endeavor
Elena Dawkins   +5 more
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Participatory Research for Adaptive Water Management in a Transition Country - a Case Study from Uzbekistan

open access: yesEcology 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAgriculture, 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   +6 more
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Comparing group deliberation to other forms of preference aggregation in valuing ecosystem services

open access: yesEcology 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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