Utilizing the multi-level perspective in empirical field research: methodological considerations.

Trust has been identified as a central characteristic of successful natural resource management (NRM), particularly in the context of implementing participatory approaches to stakeholder engagement. Trust is, however, a multi-dimensional and multi-level concept that is known to evolve recursively through time, challenging efforts to empirically measure its impact on collaboration in different NRM settings. In this communication we identify some of the challenges associated with conceptualizing and operationalizing trust in NRM field research, and pay particular attention to the inter-relationships between the concepts of trust, perceived risk and control due to their multi-dimensional and interacting roles in inter-organizational collaboration. The challenge of studying trust begins with its conceptualization, which impacts the terminology being used, thereby affecting the subsequent operationalization of trust in survey and interview measures, and the interpretation of these measures by engaged stakeholders. Building from this understanding, we highlight some of the key methodological considerations, including how trust is being conceptualized and how the associated measures are being developed, deployed, and validated in order to facilitate cross-context and cross-level comparisons. Until these key methodological issues are overcome, the nuanced roles of trust in NRM will remain unclear.

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Empirical Field Research in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Guidelines on Surveying Traumatized Societies

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e517302011-439 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Jutta Tobias

Keyword(s):

Field Research ◽

Empirical Field

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Memory, Oral History and the End of Slavery in Tanzania: Some Methodological Considerations

Slavery in Africa ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197264782.003.0015 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Jan-Georg Deutsch

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

East Africa ◽

Field Research ◽

Archival Research ◽

Archival Record ◽

The Subject ◽

Methodological Considerations

This chapter explores how the end of slavery is remembered in Tanzania. While the subject of ‘The end of slavery in Africa’ has attracted a substantial number of outstanding scholars, few researchers have conducted oral interviews, especially in East Africa. The author undertook field research, collecting contemporary memories of the end of slavery over a period of three months in the mid-1990s in various parts of Tanzania. The interviews were meant to complement archival research. The chapter shows that the memory of the end of slavery and the archival record fail to correspond with each other, and offers an explanation of why this is the case.

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Identifying challenges to enforcement in protected areas: empirical insights from 15 Colombian parks

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s0030605314000891 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 317-322 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Christoph Nolte

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Land Tenure ◽

Human Activities ◽

Field Research ◽

Livestock Grazing ◽

Regulatory Enforcement ◽

Empirical Field

AbstractProtected areas are intended to conserve biodiversity by restricting human activities within their boundaries. However, such restrictions are difficult to enforce fully in many tropical parks. Improving regulatory enforcement requires an understanding of prevailing challenges to detection and sanctioning activities. Drawing from empirical field research in 15 Colombian parks, I show that current enforcement efforts may be insufficient to deter most priority threats. For long-term infractions, such as agriculture, livestock grazing, and construction, sanctioning violators is challenging, whereas for furtive infractions, such as logging and hunting, it may be difficult to detect violators. Investment in staff, equipment and infrastructure may fail to increase enforcement capacity and yield positive conservation outcomes unless accompanied by resolution of land tenure, clarification of use rights, improved patrolling strategies and protection of park guards.

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Social neuroscience and social genomics: the emergence of multi-level integrative analyses

International journal of psychological research ◽

10.21500/20112084.711 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

John T. Cacioppo ◽

Stephanie Cacioppo ◽

Steven W. Cole

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Field Research ◽

Social Neuroscience ◽

Scientific Field ◽

Social Brain ◽

The Social ◽

Integrative Analyses ◽

Multi Level ◽

And Function

Social neuroscience emerged more than 20 years ago and has grown into a mature interdisciplinary scientific field. Research now provides compelling evidence that the structure and function of the nervous system are influenced by the social environment. Recent work in social genomics further underscores the importance of the social environment by demonstrating the influence of the social environment on gene expression. The multi-level, interdisciplinary approach and the integration of animal models and human research in social neuroscience have proven synergistic and promise continued advances in the delineation of the social brain across species and generations.

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Social Media and the Knowledge Gap

10.4018/978-1-7998-8630-3.ch019 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 344-361

Author(s):

Çiçek Topçu

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Field Research ◽

Knowledge Gap ◽

Communication Tool ◽

Media Environment ◽

Large Sample ◽

Level Of Knowledge ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

The Relationship ◽

Empirical Field

This study aims to test the relationship between the use of social media and the knowledge gap regarding COVID-19 in the Turkish environment. For this purpose of this empirical field, research was carried out throughout Turkey involving a large sample (N= 1033) in an effort to reveal how level of knowledge of social media users in Turkey regarding an issue in a particular question is shaped. The study discusses the data obtained in the field research. The conclusion, contrary to what is expected, emphasizes that social media environment has a particular presence as a communication tool, which closes the knowledge gap and fosters knowledge acquisition.

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Pentecostal cultures in urban peripheries: a socio-anthropological analysis of Pentecostalism in arts, grammars, crime and morality

Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology ◽

10.1590/1809-43412017v15n1a401 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christina Vital da Cunha

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Social Life ◽

Field Research ◽

Science Literature ◽

The Public ◽

The Social ◽

Pentecostal Churches ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

The City ◽

Empirical Field

Abstract In past decades, Catholicism in Brazil has emerged as a privileged theme in the Social Sciences literature, coming to be recognised as a key element in the formation of a "national culture". For the less affluent residents of the city, Catholicism constituted what Sanchis (1997) called “traditional urban popular culture”. Despite the abstraction contained in the notion of a "popular culture", Sanchis’ perspective has had wide academic repercussion. With the growing presence of Pentecostal Evangelicals in the public sphere, and the percentage of people who claimed to be “Evangelical” in the IBGE censuses since 1990, part of the social science literature began to reflect on the possible establishment of a "Pentecostal culture" in Brazil. In this article, I analyse the formation of a Pentecostal culture in urban peripheries. To this end, I consider that the increase in the number of Pentecostal churches and their devotees in these localities provoked changes in different spheres of social life. This article is based on empirical field research carried out intermittently between the years of 1996 and 2015 in the Acari shantytown (Rio de Janeiro).

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The Shanghai Re-employment Model: From Local Experiment to Nation-wide Labour Market Policy

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741004000104 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 177 ◽

pp. 174-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Grace O. M. Lee ◽

Malcolm Warner

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Field Research ◽

Employment Service ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Service Centre ◽

Urban Unemployment ◽

Research Findings ◽

Economic Developments ◽

Empirical Field ◽

Shed Light

Unemployment in China is now a serious and growing problem. In this context, Shanghai has been a pioneer in establishing re-employment service facilities. Starting from a local experiment, the Shanghai programme has been mooted by the Chinese authorities as a model to be replicated nation-wide. In this article, we propose an evaluation of this specific Re-employment Service Centre (zaijiuye fuwu zhongxin) programme, so as to shed light on the measures to be taken in combating urban unemployment. Our empirical field research in Shanghai took the form of over 50 open-ended, qualitative interviews with policy makers, managers, trade union representatives, workers and unemployed persons. Economic developments may make Shanghai seem distinctly special and shed light on the question of wider applicability of the Shanghai model. The replication of such a model has, in our view, only achieved mixed outcomes and the research findings suggest a degree of scepticism as to how far it can be extended.

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