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Critical systems thinking for the facilitation of conservation planning in Philippine coastal management

This paper investigates the application of Werner Ulrich’s method of dialogical boundary critique and the framework of Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) in Philippine coastal resource management.

Rasmus Kløcker Larsen / Published on 16 December 2010

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Klocker Larsen, R. (2011). Critical systems thinking for the facilitation of conservation planning in Philippine coastal management. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 28(1). 63–76. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.1045

It argues that dialogical boundary critique requires significant adaptation if it is to provide a liberating language for participants in Philippine resource management dilemmas shaped by multiple and conflicting knowledge claims under conditions of significant controversy.

The conclusions are based on stakeholder-based action planning carried out between November 2007 and May 2008 in the Babuyan group of islands, bounded by the Balintang and Babuyan Channels.

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