The Role of Action Research (AR) in Environmental Research: Learning from a Local Organic Food and Farming Research Project |
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Authors: | Hillevi Helmfrid Andrew Haden Magnus Ljung |
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Institution: | 1.Sustainable Development – Process & Perspective (Consultancy Firm),Vimmerby,Sweden;2.Department of Urban and Rural Development,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Uppsala,Sweden;3.Department of Urban and Rural Development,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Skara,Sweden |
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Abstract: | We expand on the FMA model of inquiry elucidated by Checkland and Holwell (Syst Pract Act Res 11:9, 1998) and identify three
kinds of research: interactive Action Research (AR), extractive participatory research, and traditional science, that were
integrated into an interdisciplinary agro-environmental research project involving researchers from eight countries around
the Baltic Sea. The research project held the goal of creating scientific understanding of the ecological, economic and social
effects of the sustainable development of local food systems, while also having the explicit goal of implementing change in
the studied systems. Based on our experience working as action researchers in the project, we highlight the role that normative
goals and facilitation process competence play in complex interdisciplinary research projects. Our reflections focus on project
design, including the relation between AR and other kinds of research when employed in a single project, and includes reflections
on preconditions for stakeholder participation in AR projects. |
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Keywords: | Action research Participation Local food systems Organic farming Research project design |
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