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Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research

Iris Bohnet, Rosalind Bryce, Inger Elisabeth Måren, Alicia Donnellan Barraclough, Zoe Malcolm, Siiri Külm, Toomas Kokovkin, Steve Taylor, Eva Cudlínová, Kalev Sepp · 2025 · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Summary. This paper presents a transdisciplinary framework that combines cultural heritage, landscape, and social-ecological systems thinking to support sustainable rural development. The framework emphasizes continuous dialogue and collaboration among communities, stakeholders, and researchers across four steps. Testing in four European UNESCO Biosphere Reserves demonstrated that the framework successfully guides place-based research and enables comparative analysis, allowing insights from local contexts to scale up to national and global levels.

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Bohnet, I., Bryce, R., Måren, I. E., Barraclough, A. D., Malcolm, Z., Külm, S., Kokovkin, T., Taylor, S., Cudlínová, E., & Sepp, K.. (2025). Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101506

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DOI
10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101506
Countries
Estonia, Czech Republic
Regions
Europe
Categories
climate-and-environment, regional-innovation-systems, innovation-theory
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2026-04-28