Systemic Research Practices Towards the Development of an Eco-Community in Vietnam: some Joint Post-Facto Reflections

Ha TN Hoang and Norma RA Romm ()
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Ha TN Hoang: Viet Nam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA)
Norma RA Romm: University of South Africa

Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2020, vol. 33, issue 6, No 1, 599-624

Abstract: Abstract In this article we discuss how an interdisciplinary research team partnered with a variety of stakeholders concerned with and/or affected by the impacts of climate change in the Red River Delta of Vietnam. The research, undertaken from 2016 to 2018, drew upon a wide range of methods to investigate systemically these impacts – with a view to the research inputting into the development of (more) sustainable ways of living. The research solicited various accounts of the experience of climate change in the community, set up learning processes in community meetings, and created an interface with government officials positioned at commune, district, provincial, and national levels. The intention was to offer support towards developing a learning process (broadly defined as including learnings/systemic inquiry across organizational levels of the society) to pursue options for sustainable living. The article offers our post-facto reflections which render more explicit (to ourselves and for the benefit of audiences) how the research team, with Hoang as lead researcher, facilitated the inquiry process towards developing a synthesis which underscored the assets for resilience to climate change and supported interventions to strengthen such (defined) assets.

Keywords: Climate change; Interdisciplinary research; Professional researcher responsibility; Systemic inquiry; Transdisciplinary research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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