Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management.

ABSTRACT: Successful management of invasive plants (IPs) requires the active participation of diverse communities across land tenures. This can be challenging because communities do not always share the views of scientists and managers. They may directly disagree, have alternative views, or be unwilling to manage IPs. Reviews of IP social science identify opportunities to better understand the role of cultural processes and everyday practices to address these challenges. To scale up and leverage the insights of existing qualitative social science IP research, we used meta-ethnography to unlock accounts and interpretations of lay perspectives. Meta-ethnography is a form of qualitative research synthesis increasingly used beyond its origins in health and education to produce interpretive syntheses of

SUBMITTER: Gill N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087763 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature