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Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach
In the south basin of Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan, overgrown aquatic weeds (submerged macrophytes) impede cruising boats and cause unpleasant odors and undesirable waste when washed ashore. To address this socio-ecological problem, Shiga Prefectural Government implemented a public program to remove over...
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author | Kondo, Yasuhisa Fujisawa, Eiichi Ishikawa, Kanako Nakahara, Satoe Matsushita, Kyohei Asano, Satoshi Kamatani, Kaoru Suetsugu, Satoko Kano, Kei Kumazawa, Terukazu Sato, Kenichi Okuda, Noboru |
author_facet | Kondo, Yasuhisa Fujisawa, Eiichi Ishikawa, Kanako Nakahara, Satoe Matsushita, Kyohei Asano, Satoshi Kamatani, Kaoru Suetsugu, Satoko Kano, Kei Kumazawa, Terukazu Sato, Kenichi Okuda, Noboru |
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description | In the south basin of Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan, overgrown aquatic weeds (submerged macrophytes) impede cruising boats and cause unpleasant odors and undesirable waste when washed ashore. To address this socio-ecological problem, Shiga Prefectural Government implemented a public program to remove overgrown weeds and compost them ashore to conserve the lake environment, while coastal inhabitants and occasional volunteers remove weeds from the beaches to maintain the quality of the living environment. However, these effects are limited because of disjointed social networks. We applied an adaptive and abductive approach to develop community capability to jointly address this problem by sharing academic knowledge with local actors and empowering them. The initial multifaceted reviews, including interviews and postal questionnaire surveys, revealed that the agro-economic value of composted weeds declined in historical and socio-psychological contexts and that most of the unengaged public relied on local governments to address environmental problems. These findings were synthesized and assessed with workshop participants, including local inhabitants, governmental agents, businesspeople, social entrepreneurs, and research experts, to unearth the best solution. The workshops resulted in the development of an e-point system, called Biwa Point, to promote and acknowledge voluntary environmental conservation activities, including beach cleaning. It may contribute to enhancing the socio-ecological capability of communities. Additionally, ethical issues, such as publication of inconvenient truths, undesired interpretation by the researchers, and social constraints in research methods, arose through our research practice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42532-021-00078-3. |
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spelling | pubmed-80056702021-03-29 Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach Kondo, Yasuhisa Fujisawa, Eiichi Ishikawa, Kanako Nakahara, Satoe Matsushita, Kyohei Asano, Satoshi Kamatani, Kaoru Suetsugu, Satoko Kano, Kei Kumazawa, Terukazu Sato, Kenichi Okuda, Noboru Socioecol Pract Res Research Article In the south basin of Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan, overgrown aquatic weeds (submerged macrophytes) impede cruising boats and cause unpleasant odors and undesirable waste when washed ashore. To address this socio-ecological problem, Shiga Prefectural Government implemented a public program to remove overgrown weeds and compost them ashore to conserve the lake environment, while coastal inhabitants and occasional volunteers remove weeds from the beaches to maintain the quality of the living environment. However, these effects are limited because of disjointed social networks. We applied an adaptive and abductive approach to develop community capability to jointly address this problem by sharing academic knowledge with local actors and empowering them. The initial multifaceted reviews, including interviews and postal questionnaire surveys, revealed that the agro-economic value of composted weeds declined in historical and socio-psychological contexts and that most of the unengaged public relied on local governments to address environmental problems. These findings were synthesized and assessed with workshop participants, including local inhabitants, governmental agents, businesspeople, social entrepreneurs, and research experts, to unearth the best solution. The workshops resulted in the development of an e-point system, called Biwa Point, to promote and acknowledge voluntary environmental conservation activities, including beach cleaning. It may contribute to enhancing the socio-ecological capability of communities. Additionally, ethical issues, such as publication of inconvenient truths, undesired interpretation by the researchers, and social constraints in research methods, arose through our research practice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42532-021-00078-3. Springer Singapore 2021-03-29 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8005670/ /pubmed/34778712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-021-00078-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kondo, Yasuhisa Fujisawa, Eiichi Ishikawa, Kanako Nakahara, Satoe Matsushita, Kyohei Asano, Satoshi Kamatani, Kaoru Suetsugu, Satoko Kano, Kei Kumazawa, Terukazu Sato, Kenichi Okuda, Noboru Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach |
title | Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach |
title_full | Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach |
title_fullStr | Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach |
title_short | Community capability building for environmental conservation in Lake Biwa (Japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach |
title_sort | community capability building for environmental conservation in lake biwa (japan) through an adaptive and abductive approach |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8005670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34778712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-021-00078-3 |
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