Fostering collaboration for knowledge and action in disaster management in South Africa

摘要: Engaging diverse stakeholders in collaborative processes to integrate environmental information into decision making is important, but challenging. It requires working at and across the boundaries between knowledge types — a complex milieu of different value systems, norms, mental models — and multiple stakeholder-engagement which facilitate exchange co-production. Using a qualitative, inductive approach, we analysed perceptions outputs transdisciplinary project aimed generate new knowledge, awareness action for ecosystem-based disaster management South Africa. Several obstacles that could potentially undermine project's objectives were identified, including: preconceived assumptions; entrenched disciplinary thinking; confusing terminology. Enabling factors included efforts ensure co-creation use brokers promoting systems thinking grounded practice.