The report is a joint collaboration between Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Excerpts from the Executive Summary
Social learning is the focus of applied and increasingly interdisciplinary scholarship in environmental education, climate change adaptation, natural resource governance and ecosystem management. Despite interest in the concept, important questions remain about the use and application of social learning in these contexts and its relevance to the challenge of global social ecological change.
The workshop provided a unique opportunity for individuals approaching social learning in diverse ways to interact, share insights, ideas and critiques through keynote and speed presentations, open space and small group discussion sessions, and at an interactive plenary. Keynote and speed presentations focused on:
- learning and governance of natural resource management with reference to water, forestry, fisheries and environmental change;
- social learning in the context of climate change and broader sustainability debates;
- the potential of social learning platforms to address emerging issues in dynamic and rapidly changing contexts; and
- linkages among social learning, society, and the role of formal and non-formal education.
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Swedish Foundation for Environmental Research (Mistra) through the Swedish Research Programme on Climate, Impacts and Adaptation (Mistra-SWECIA) Programme.
