Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web

• Published in: Ecology and Society
• Main Authors: Jordan Levine, Michael Muthukrishna, Kai M. A. Chan, Terre Satterfield
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2015
• Subjects: British Columbia; food webs; mental models; network analysis; salience analysis; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08094-200442; https://doaj.org/article/3c3fd035632549eb819a9ed0819308b5

Arriving at shared mental models among multiple stakeholder groups can be crucial for successful management of contested social-ecological systems (SES). Academia can help by first eliciting stakeholders' initial, often tacit, beliefs about a SES, and representing them in useful ways. We demons...