System effects mapping: a tool for promoting collaborative community ecological action

COMMUNITY CASE STUDY article

Front. Environ. Sci., 09 February 2024
Sec. Environmental Citizen Science
Volume 12 – 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1356065

System effects mapping: a tool for promoting collaborative community ecological action

Virginia Baker^1,2 Mat Walton¹ Suzanne Manning, Jamie Ataria³, Carla Gee⁴, Robin Taua-Gordon⁵

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1356065/full

Frontiers | System effects mapping: a tool for promoting collaborative community ecological action

Luke Craven on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukecraven_openaccess-systemeffects-activity-7179992956643295232-r8Gz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios says:

🎉It is wonderful to see a new application of System Effects published in Frontiers, this time used to visualise how people connect to and value their local waterways.

🔍The project, undertaken by ESR – Science and Research in partnership with the local community, explored issues of environmental pollution and contamination within the Whau River catchment, an urban estuarine system in the west of Auckland City, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

🛠System Effects was used by ESR scientists as a tool for local action and planning, collaborative sense-making and more complex problem structuring.

📊The paper concludes that the use of the tool enabled the ESR team to have more meaningful impacts for the local community.

👏Well done, Mat Walton and colleagues, for bringing this application to life!

🌐You can read the full hashtag#OpenAccess paper here: https://lnkd.in/gkh_xQKm

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