Journal article
Doing integration in catchment management research: Insights into a dynamic learning process
M Ayre, R Nettle
Environmental Science and Policy | Published : 2015
Open access
Abstract
The promise of integrated research for addressing complex problems of sustainability such as catchment management has been widely recognised. However, the mechanisms for achieving integration in research have been the subject of few empirical studies. A major challenge of doing integrated research is how to combine and effectively manage diverse disciplinary perspectives and other knowledge/s in the generation of new knowledge for practice and policy change. We examined this challenge within a large catchment management research project in Australia's Murray Darling Basin and asked, 'What supports or enables integration in research?' Addressing this question requires an attention to integrat..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Farms Rivers and Markets project is an initiative of Uniwater and was funded by the (Australian) National Water Commission, the Victorian Water Trust, The Dookie Farms (2000) Trust (Tallis Trust) and the University of Melbourne. The project is supported by the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries, the Goulburn-Broken Catchment Management Authority and Goulburn-Murray Water. We wish to thank the reviewers and members of the Rural Innovation Research Group Writing Group for their helpful and constructive comments that substantially improved this paper. We would also like to thank the participants in this study who gave generously of their time and intellectual resources in interviews, workshops, meetings and focus groups and in particular Professor Andrew Western and Dr. Robert Farquharson. Thank you also to Chandra Jayasuriya for producing the map and Fraser Hopwood for graphic design support.