Nature and climate engagement & advocacy

Engaging people with nature and climate to inform advocacy in QLD

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Nature and climate engagement & advocacy by Mind Map: Nature and climate engagement & advocacy

1. Academic knowledges to support research

1.1. Eco-communicative democracy

1.1.1. Voices, plurality, justice, inclusion, discernment, power, 'deep equity'

1.1.2. Ecological information / voices

1.1.3. radical ecological democracy

1.1.4. Interdependent terms of community, commuication, and commons (Dewey)

1.2. Transdiciplinary

1.2.1. TD practical collaboration toward more effective engagement, learning, expanding participation and contact of people with issues, widening knowledge and voices.

1.2.1.1. Evolving new approaches and practices for engagement

1.2.2. TD research / disciplines for innovative ways of thinking and practices.

1.2.2.1. Widening knowledges recognised and incorporated. Cross-sectoral learning.

1.3. Justice and equity

1.3.1. First Nations justice,

1.3.1.1. Cross cultural engagement and communications

1.3.2. Deliberative democracy

1.3.3. Ecological democracy

1.3.4. Inclusivity

1.4. Cultural and place-based engagement

1.4.1. Local population data, surveys, influences

1.4.2. Cultural studies and cultural factors

1.4.2.1. roles shaping culture, meaning, etc and the significance of this to social change

1.4.2.2. social movements

1.4.3. Place-based communityengagement

1.4.3.1. Community involvement/leadership

1.4.4. Inter / transcultural position / lens

1.5. Human-nature/place relationship

1.5.1. Place informed and place-based engagement

1.5.1.1. Bioregionalism, ecological information, boundaries, relationships +

1.5.2. Ecopsychology. Environmental psychology, Eco humanities

1.5.2.1. Ecological awareness and identity

1.5.2.2. How human-nature relationships influence behaviour

1.5.2.3. Alternate perspectives for practitioner on human engagement with nature and climate

1.5.3. Emergent startegy

1.5.4. Process psychology and process work approaches

2. Other sources of knowledge to support research

2.1. Data, surveys of influences on engagement

2.2. Experience, expertise, trainings in the env and climate movement (and social change/engagement)

2.3. Institutional bodies, researchers, projects, etc

2.4. First Nations cultural engagement

2.5. Case studies with Gecko Environment Council

3. Secondary informing theories / key concepts / philosophical approaches (not exhaustive)

3.1. Environmental ethics, justice and sustainability

3.2. Environment and climate policy

3.3. Systems theory

3.4. Futures thinking

3.5. Field theory

3.6. Complexity theory

3.7. Signalling theory

3.8. Diffusion of innovations

3.9. Solidarity and allyship in practice

3.10. Critical consciousness

3.11. Relational reflexivity

3.12. Geographies of social change

3.13. Ecofeminism

3.14. Climate wellbeing and impacts

3.15. Risk perception theory

3.16. Behavioural change theory

3.17. Self-determination theory

4. Theory of change?

4.1. How will this research into innovative practices support contemporary engagement and advocacy?

4.1.1. Partnerships and collaborations with groups, across sectors. Co-learning, co-producing knowledge

4.1.2. Widening audience participation, diversity of voices and enriching advocacy

4.1.3. Learning how to better meet participants where they're at, designing relatable, motivational messages, working with barriers and challenges

4.1.4. Experimentation, risk

4.1.4.1. New tactics / innovation. Consider impact of innovative tactics, why/how the movement evolves.

4.2. Researcher and practitioner perspectives - both influencing research process

5. Current advocacy and engagement practice

5.1. Nature

5.1.1. Needs for protection, conservation, resoration and regeneration

5.1.1.1. on-ground variety of groups with awareness of information and potential solutions

5.2. Climate

5.2.1. Needs for reducing emissions and impacts through adaptation and resilience

5.3. Approaches

5.3.1. Discernment of issues, stakeholders, solutions, etc

5.3.2. Development of strategy, theory of change, etc

5.3.2.1. engagement

5.3.2.2. advocacy

5.3.3. Communications

5.3.3.1. advocacy and engagement

5.3.3.2. organisational

5.4. Structural conditions, restraints and opportunities

5.4.1. Network of movement on Gold Coast

5.5. Policymaker - community bridging relationship

5.6. Legacy: History and evolution of env and climate movement in QLD and Gold Coast

5.7. Social change, engagement and advocacy theories

5.7.1. Contemporary research and practice

5.7.2. History of movements, advocacy and variety of practices

5.7.2.1. Social movement theory

5.7.2.2. Resource mobilisation theory

5.7.3. Gaps

6. Potential for transdisciplinary case studies that combine emergent and deliberate strategy

6.1. Strategic communication in multiple place of engagement and advocacy

6.1.1. Eco democractiic communication

6.1.2. Educational

6.1.3. Narrative, framing messages, influencing discourse

6.1.4. Listening

6.2. Creative thinking and approaches

6.2.1. Qualities may include: responsive, reflexive, provocative. Involves imagination

6.2.1.1. Potentially different relationship with participant through their engagement, and participant experience

6.2.2. CARI, Griffith Uni

6.3. Emergent and relational

6.3.1. Place-informed and based

6.3.1.1. Intersubjectivity, ecological listening / knowledge

6.3.1.2. Bio-cultural region / bioregionalism

6.3.1.2.1. Listening to and having knowledge of place, and relationships with nature

6.3.1.2.2. Reinhabitation: Responsible, regenerative, living in place

6.3.1.3. Content connected to where the audience lives/values

6.3.1.3.1. Community listening, involvement and leadership

6.3.2. Culturally informed and relational

6.3.2.1. First Nations

6.3.2.1.1. Aboriginal and TSI cultural practices for change, engagement, etc

6.3.2.2. Culture of place

6.3.2.2.1. knowledges about contextual influences: social, political, environmental, place identity, etc

6.3.2.3. Prior info / listening to engagement audience

6.3.2.3.1. knowledges about specific barriers, motivations, opportunities, etc

6.3.3. Person-informing process

6.3.3.1. Process Work, World work social presencing

6.3.3.1.1. Consensus reality

6.3.3.1.2. Attending to more/whole person and their social/ecological field / gestalt

6.3.3.1.3. Embodied experience of issues and engagement

6.3.3.1.4. Responsive, process-oriented engagement styles

6.3.3.2. Eco humanities, Ecopsychology

6.3.3.2.1. Attending to human-nature relationships and their influence on engagement and process

6.3.3.2.2. Intersection of pro-environmental behaviour and welbeing, and effect of climate/nature crises inidividually and collectively