Framing integrated research to address a dynamically complex issue: The red headed cockchafer challenge

Craig Miller and Barry Newell

Agricultural Systems, 2013, vol. 117, issue C, 13-18

Abstract: In South East Australia redheaded cockchafers Adoryphorous coulonii are a pasture pest with an increasing economic impact on the dairy industry. The industry is taking a strategic and systemic approach to identifying the research needs and management responses in recognition of the dynamic complexity of the issue. We discuss the process used to help a range of farmers, industry stakeholders, and scientists to achieve a shared understanding of the cockchafer-pasture-agribusiness system. This process provided an integrative framework for the generation of hypotheses that can be used to design effective trans-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary research.

Keywords: Conceptual model; System dynamics; Multi-disciplinary; Trans-disciplinary; Stock-and-flow; Pest management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2013.02.001

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