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Knowledge management for land degradation monitoring and assessment: an analysis of contemporary thinking

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Abstract

It is increasingly recognised that land degradation monitoring and assessment can benefit from incorporating multiple sources of knowledge, using a variety of methods at different scales, including the perspectives of researchers, land managers and other stakeholders. However, the knowledge and methods required to achieve this are often dispersed across individuals and organisations at different levels and locations. Appropriate knowledge management mechanisms are therefore required to more efficiently harness these different sources of knowledge and facilitate their broader dissemination and application. This paper examines what knowledge is, how it is generated and explores how it may be stored, transferred and exchanged between knowledge producers and users before it is applied to monitor and assess land degradation at the local scale. It suggests that knowledge management can also benefit from the development of mechanisms that promote changes in understanding and efficient means of accessing and/or brokering knowledge. Broadly, these processes for knowledge management can (i) help identify and share good practices and build capacity for land degradation monitoring at different scales and in different contexts and (ii) create knowledge networks to share lessons learned and monitoring data among and between different stakeholders, scales and locations. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Author(s): Reed MS, Fazey I, Stringer LC, Raymond CM, Akhtar-Schuster M, Begni G, Bigas H, Brehm S, Briggs J, Bryce R, Buckmaster S, Chanda R, Davies J, Diez E, Essahli W, Evely A, Geeson N, Hartmann I, Holden J, Hubacek K, Ioris AAR, Kruger B, Laureano P, Phillipson J, Prell C, Quinn CH, Reeves AD, Seely M, Thomas R, Ten Bosch MJV, Vergunst P, Wagner L

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Land Degradation & Development

Year: 2013

Volume: 24

Issue: 4

Pages: 307-322

Print publication date: 01/07/2013

Online publication date: 17/06/2011

Acceptance date: 31/03/2011

ISSN (print): 1085-3278

ISSN (electronic): 1099-145X

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.1124

DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1124

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