September 10, 2010
by peter.taylor
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During the spring and summer of 2000 I participated in four innovative, interdisciplinary workshops. A review of the workshops led me to dig deeper into how workshops work when they do. I assembled a list of heuristics that I include … Continue reading
September 5, 2010
by peter.taylor
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“…the challenge of bringing into interaction not only a wider range of researchers, but a wider range of social agents, and to the challenge of keeping them working through differences and tensions until plans and practices are developed in which … Continue reading
September 3, 2010
by peter.taylor
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As a young environmental and political activist in Australia in the 1970s I was involved in a wide range of actions—from working with trade unionists to oppose the construction of an inner city power plant through campaigning against excess packaging … Continue reading
September 2, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Since the 1990s collaboration has become a dominant concern in environmental planning and management (Margerum 2008), but the need to organize collaborative environmental research can be traced back at least as far as the tropical rainforest ecosystem projects led by … Continue reading
September 1, 2010
by peter.taylor
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As a student and environmental activist in the 1970s I developed an interest, which continues to this day, in ecological complexity as a challenge to conventional scientific ways of knowing. Although ecological and environmental researchers partition complex situations into well-bounded … Continue reading