Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research
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
Bohnet, Iris, et al. “Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101506.
Bohnet, Iris, Rosalind Bryce, Inger Elisabeth Måren, Alicia Donnellan Barraclough, Zoe Malcolm, Siiri Külm, Toomas Kokovkin, Steve Taylor, Eva Cudlínová, and Kalev Sepp. 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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title = {Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development: a transdisciplinary learning framework for guiding place-based social-ecological research},
author = {Iris Bohnet and Rosalind Bryce and Inger Elisabeth Måren and Alicia Donnellan Barraclough and Zoe Malcolm and Siiri Külm and Toomas Kokovkin and Steve Taylor and Eva Cudlínová and Kalev Sepp},
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- 10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101506
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- Estonia, Czech Republic
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- climate-and-environment, regional-innovation-systems, innovation-theory
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- 2026-04-28