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LearningForSustainability online web site & resources:
http://learningforsustainability.net/

Social learning is increasingly cited as an essential process for addressing the complexity and uncertainty inherent in many sustainability issues such as climate change, and for developing understanding between the different perspectives held by multiple stakeholders.

The Learning for Sustainability (LfS) website -
http://learningforsustainability.net
- aims to provide a practical resource for proponents of multi-stakeholder learning processes. It recognizes that social learning is an ongoing process which underpins sustainable development initiatives, rather than an outcome to be achieved.

This international guide to on-line resources is designed for government and agency staff, NGOs, researchers and other community leaders working in peace, community development, public health, climate, catchment and natural resource management. It acts as a gathering point for resources that have been developed in these separate sectors, and supports the sharing of ideas across sectors.

The site structure highlights a number of activity areas or strands that are prerequisites for social learning, and points to how these strands are woven together in practice. These strands include networking, dialogue, adaptive management, knowledge management and evaluation. The growing role of the Internet is treated as a separate section. A short introduction to each section outlines the nature of the resource links provided, and provides pointers to other topic areas which are closely related in use. A separate section links to key manuals and guides on the Internet for facilitating participation and engagement.

A research methods and approaches section has links to action research resources, material on doing integrated and interdisciplinary research, a listing of on-line journals in these areas, and it hosts the IntSci (Integrated Science for sustainability) discussion network.

This new site will replace the NRM-changelinks site which has provided links in this area since 1998. The new Learning for Sustainability website is designed to provide site users with improved layout and easier navigation. The change is not just cosmetic - previous NRM-changelinks visitors will find significantly new content, and a new structure to guide the site content and navigation.

Feed back on the LearningForSustainability site - http://learningforsustainability.net/ - is welcomed. If you have particular guides on the Internet that you find useful in practice please suggest them as a future resource to add and share with others.

(updated 6/17/2008 10:22:24 PM)