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

• Main Authors: Levine, Jordan, Muthukrishna, Michael, Chan, Kai M. A., Satterfield, Terre
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2015
• Subjects: British Columbia; food webs; mental models; network analysis; salience analysis; British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss4/art42/

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 demonstrate...