Working with People
Pest control in New Zealand requires the efforts of funders, strategists, scientists, agencies and community groups. Thus, it is difficult to work efficiently and effectively in pest control without working with people in some way.
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Agencies such as DOC and the Animal Health Board have found that they often have to work in partnership with communities and other agencies to achieve mutually acceptable control methods and plans.
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Similarly to achieve biodiversity outcomes or to control Tb on land outside of public ownership agencies are increasingly finding it beneficial to work with landowners and community groups to achieve effective pest control.
This page introduces and links to some of the collaborative learning research going on at Landcare Research that looks at the kind of participation processes that help people learn how to work with others successfully in such projects.
The principles of how to work with others are similar across a range of resource management settings from:
- improving the protection of native biodiversity on private land
- managing river catchments
- eradicating Tb,
- developing environmentally sustainable cities and businesses.
Likewise, working together is important across a range of different levels from developing policy and strategic plans to developing practical measures for achieving outcomes.
Lessons from these other areas are usually as applicable to pest control as they are to managing waste or improving biodiversity or catchment management.
The pages listed below offer summaries and links into full text papers and reports from the research into collaborative learning at Landcare Research.
- Supporting collaborative approaches (groups and teams)
- Frameworks for learning
- Integrated systems for knowledge management
- Participation and policy development
- Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E)
- The front page of the collaborative learning website
- Stakeholder analysis
- The report Māori and 1080 looks at how the style of consultation processes affects outcomes when agencies want to control possums on Māori Land.
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