But it has another dimension: a fierce argument over whether federal science was torqued to paint the oyster farm as a bad ecological actor.
Conceptual framework integrating (I) degrees of participation the methods provide Pretty et al. ([1995]:61), (II) types of ecological knowledge of different actors, and (III) eight dimensions of values related to different categories of ecosystem services and benefits (Chan et al. [2012], p.13).
For instance, Ingold et al. (2010) showed that existing local policy projects give high consideration to regional planning as well as communal and economic interests, while most of the actors defending ecological concerns are not well embedded in the relevant information-exchange networks.
The concept takes into account modern socio-cultural trends and factors influencing the educational changes and is based on the conceptual synthesis of system-functioning, ecological-evolutionary and actor-network approaches.
Actors with local ecological knowledge are the men and women in the villages.
Actors with local ecological knowledge: farmers (7), livestock raisers (4), hunters (2), and honeybee keepers (1).
One set indicates the awareness of actors to consider ecological principles of sustainable planning.
At the core of the framework is a set of basic building blocks (motifs) that each represents a simplified but non-trivial social ecological systems (SES) consisting of two social actors and two ecological resources.
In IM we identify agents (decision makers or actors) at each ecological level: interpersonal (e.g., parents), organizational (e.g., managers), community (e.g., newspaper editors), or societal (e.g., legislators).
Actors with policy ecological knowledge: managers from the protected area (7), administrators from the municipalities (7), regional water agency (2), regional environmental office (3), local sustainability agency (3), NGO representatives (3), environmental education professionals (3), representatives of the private sector related to tourism (2), and journalists (2).
