Sammanfattning

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.

Nyckelord

action research; participation; local food systems; organic farming; research project design

Publicerad i

Systemic Practice and Action Research
2008, Volym: 21, nummer: 2, sidor: 105-131
Utgivare: SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS

SLU författare

• Haden, Andrew

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Ljung, Magnus

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

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Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-007-9088-y

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/77995