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      Learning and Action Alliance framework to facilitate stakeholder collaboration and social learning in urban flood risk management

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      Agendas for all LAA meetings (February 2014 - May 2016) (2.128Mb)
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      Summary of the October 2014 LAA meeting outputs (395.7Kb)
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      Publication date
      2017-11-01
      Creators
      O'Donnell, Emily
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      Description
      Flood and water management governance may be enhanced through partnership working, intra- and cross-organisational collaborations, and wide stakeholder participation. Nonetheless, barriers associated with ineffective communication, fragmented responsibilities and ‘siloed thinking’ restrict open dialogue and discussion. The Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) framework may help overcome these barriers by enabling effective engagement through social learning, and facilitating targeted actions needed to deliver innovative solutions to environmental problems. By increasing the adaptive capacity of decision-makers and participants, social learning through LAAs may lead to concerted action and sustained processes of behavioural change. In this paper, we evaluate the LAA framework as a catalyst for change that supports collaborative working and facilitates transition to more sustainable flood risk management. We use a case study in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, to demonstrate how the LAA framework brought together disparate City stakeholders to co-produce new knowledge, negotiate innovative actions and, ultimately, work towards implementing a new vision for sustainable urban flood risk management. The shared vision of Newcastle as a ‘Blue-Green City’ that emerged is founded on a strong platform for social learning which increased organisations’ and individuals’ capacities to manage differences in perspectives and behaviours, reframe knowledge, and make collective decisions based on negotiation and conflict resolution. Broad recommendations based on lessons learned from the Newcastle LAA are presented to aid other cities and regions in establishing and running social learning platforms.
      External URI
      • https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/63
      DOI
      • http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.60
      Related publication DOI
      • 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.10.013
      Links
      • http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk
      • http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.60
      Subjects
      • Learning and Action Alliance, Blue-Green infrastructure, social learning
      • Social Studies::Human & social geography::Human & social geography by topic::Urban geography
      • G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation::G Geography (General)
      Divisions
      • University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Social Sciences::School of Geography
      Deposit date
      2017-12-19
      Data type
      Learning and Action Alliance meeting agendas and outputs
      Contributors
      • Lamond, Jessica
      • thorne, colin
      Funders
      • Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
      Grant number
      • EP/K013661/1
      Parent project
      • Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Benefits in Blue-Green Cities
      Collection dates
      • February 2014 - February 2016
      Coverage
      • Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
      Data collection method
      Data derived from planning and participation in meetings of the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance
      Legal and ethical issues
      Data cannot be shared because of issues around informed consent and the use of personal identifiers
      Resource languages
      • en
      Copyright
      • University of Nottingham
      Publisher
      The University of Nottingham

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