Dr. Lorien JASNY:A Network Approach to Social Learning: An Application to Decision-Making in Collaborative Management

Collaborative management initiatives are increasingly being used in environmental policy with the aims of producing more favourable and more sustainable solutions. How this type of policy deliberation is successful in influencing participants, and whether this influence affects the solutions proposed, however, is unknown. This paper examines networks of mental models to understand deliberation and ‘social learning’ in a small group charged with collaboratively managing natural resources.