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S7.6 Kondo: An inclusive approach to develop community cap

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Assoc Prof Yasuhisa Kondo, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan
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In the south basin of Lake Biwa, Shiga, Japan, overgrown aquatic weeds impede cruising boats and cause unpleasant odours and undesirable waste when washed ashore. To address this socio-ecological problem, the local government implemented a public program to remove overgrown weeds and compost them ashore to conserve the lake environment, while coastal inhabitants and occasional volunteers remove weeds from the beaches to maintain the quality of the living environment. However, these effects are limited because of disjointed social networks. The author’s team worked as external action researchers to facilitate developing community capability to jointly address this problem by sharing academic knowledge with local actors and empowering them with an inclusive, adaptive, and abductive intent. In practice, the team held multi-actor workshops with local inhabitants, governmental agents, businesspeople, social entrepreneurs, and research experts to unearth the best solution. The workshops resulted in developing an e-point system, called Biwa Point, to promote and acknowledge voluntary environmental conservation activities, including beach cleaning. A non-profit organisation launched to implement and manage the Biwa Point system. This process was characterised by the dynamic organisation of actors of interest and their initiative to make decisions. This action research also arose ethical issues, such as the publication of inconvenient truths, undesired interpretation by the researchers, and social constraints in research methods.

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