Tagged: collaboration

Testing adaptive governance approaches to address New Zealand’s ‘wicked’ environmental problems - Guest Work

Guest Author • Oct 06, 2017 •

• adaptive governance,
• collaboration,
• environmental policy,
• erosion,
• policy,
• Weaving the Korowai

By Lisa Sharma-Wallace  Environmental problems today are complicated. Some might even call them ‘wicked’. They involve clashing public perceptions, moving targets, differing stakeholder aspirations, and long-term time-frames, often stretching over generations. They’re also multi-dimensional, including a number of different causes, impacts, parties, and objectives which shift over time. Where do we even begin to address problems like these? Non-linear … Read More

We need more post-publication peer review - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Sep 18, 2017 •

• collaboration,
• journals,
• peer review,
• post-publication,
• publishing,
• Science,
• Science and Society

We often tout peer review as the reason for accepting the veracity of published scientific studies? But how good is it really? Does it ever match the ideal picture people have of it? And what about peer review before and after publication – are we neglecting these important stages? Pre-publication peer review Here I mean the collective process of evaluating … Read More

Poor robots? - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Mar 03, 2016 •

• automotive,
• collaboration,
• manufacturing,
• robotics,
• trends

Hard on the heals of robots getting “bullied” …   … are humans now “stealing” robot’s jobs? No. As Forbes notes, it is more an evolution of robotics within the auto industry. Big clunky first generation industrial robots are being replaced by smaller more agile machines which can work more safely and efficiently alongside human workers. A … Read More

Data parasites eh? - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Jan 24, 2016 •

• #dataparasite,
• bioinformatics,
• collaboration,
• computational biology,
• Data parasite,
• Editorial,
• New England Journal of Medicine,
• samples

Apparently researchers who use other’s data without collaborating with them are ‘research parasites’, according to an editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine. This has caused quite a fuss, with some expressing their opinion on the twitter streams #dataparasites and #researchparasites. I think the editorial conflates data sharing with other issues. Data sharing is an important part of science, but … Read More

Scientific collaboration between researchers – map - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Aug 20, 2013 •

• collaboration,
• data visualisation,
• data viz,
• design,
• map,
• network,
• Olivier H. Beauchesne,
• research

Following my last post, which talked about work which has been done ranking the excellence of scientific organisations around the world, there’s this: a map of scientific collaboration between researchers. Developed by Olivier H. Beauchesne, who makes really interesting data-visualising… Read more › … Read More

Water governance in New Zealand: A conclusion - Waiology

Waiology • Apr 08, 2013 •

• collaboration,
• CWMS,
• NPSFM,
• policy,
• RMA,
• Water governance,
• water management,
• Water resources,
• WCO

By Daniel Collins When it comes to managing our freshwaters well, science can provide only part of the solution. It is important to appreciate how much water we have, what quality it is, and how our activities change these things – questions that only science can answer – but it is also important to appreciate what people want from … Read More

Collaborative water management delivers local solutions in north Canterbury - Waiology

Waiology • Apr 04, 2013 •

• Canterbury,
• collaboration,
• CWMS,
• Water governance,
• Water storage

By David Eder and Ian Whitehouse In July 2013 the Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee will notch up three years of work. It was set up as part of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy – a collaborative process for finding local solutions to water issues within an environmentally sustainable framework. In July 2010 the committee’s daunting task was … Read More

Trust, as much as science, is at the heart of water management - Waiology

Waiology • Mar 25, 2013 •

• collaboration,
• Planning,
• science communication,
• Water governance,
• water management

By Chris Arbuckle For many years now “Water User Groups” (WUG’s) have done a great job implementing community-based water management initiatives. And they have achieved this with the assistance of organizations such as the Landcare Trust, Crown Research Institutes, non-government agencies and regional councils. Projects on the Waituna Lagoon, Upper Taieri River and Aorere Catchment attest … Read More

Personal reflections on the Land and Water Forum - Waiology

Waiology • Mar 04, 2013 •

• collaboration,
• Land and Water Forum,
• Water governance,
• Water resource management,
• Water resources

By Hugh Canard I was asked to contribute to Waiology’s series on water governance, and after a very brief struggle with my inertial guidance system, I thought my contribution should be from the inside of the governance tent looking out. I have been variously engaged in the early stages of the development through to the implementation phases of … Read More

Now we begin to understand how the genome works! - Southern Genes

Peter Dearden • Sep 06, 2012 •

• collaboration,
• ENCODE,
• gene regulation,
• genetics

Peter K. Dearden You might have seen the press coverage of the release of the ‘Encode’ data which significantly increases our understanding of the functions of the Human genome. I have spent some time trying to explain it to the public, usually through using very unhelpful metaphors. I thought, just in case people were still confused ( or more confused), … Read More