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Systems Thinking for Sustainable Manure Management.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Systems Thinking for Sustainable Manure Management./
作者:	Deviney, Alison Victoria.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (364 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-02B.
標題:	Manures. -
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ISBN:	9798841527374

Systems Thinking for Sustainable Manure Management.
Deviney, Alison Victoria.

Systems Thinking for Sustainable Manure Management. - 1 online resource (364 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

In Chapter 1, a case study was conducted to examine two efforts to transition a sociotechnical regime - the lagoon and sprayfield system of swine waste management - toward a more sustainable technology. A sociotechnical regime is the integrated social and technical network related to a particular technology or practice. Many complex agriculture systems such as livestock production have evolved around these sociotechnical regimes. The Multilevel Perspective Theory (MLP) of sustainable transitions in sociotechnical systems posits that when a regime exhibits behavior that negatively impacts its surrounding economic, social and environmental landscape, that landscape will exert pressure to change, which in turn opens the window of opportunity for niche technologies to develop. Understanding the relationships between the landscape, the regime and the emerging niches can help align these different levels of perspective toward a common understanding of the system, its purpose and goals to promote a transition toward more sustainable practices. A methodology built on this MLP framework to map complex agriculture systems was demonstrated herein through a case study. A farm level was added to the MLP framework (MLP+F) to consider the specific needs and context of the farm, because the farm is often the end user of both the regime and agricultural advancements intended to replace it. The purpose of this mapping strategy is to create a conceptual model to visualize and analyze a complex system from the four MLP+F levels and across the different stakeholder group perspectives that represent subsystems within those levels.A case study of North Carolina's swine waste management system (NC SWM) was conducted in Chapter 3 to demonstrate the development and application of the conceptual model. Following the methodology guidelines, this case study engaged a diverse panel of local experts using a modified Delphi technique to identify the relevant concepts and their cause-effect relationships for the current regime. These concepts and relationships were then categorized and organized into a conceptual model using fuzzy cognitive mapping of each subsystem category. The model was then used to analyze how well the experts' understanding of the system aligned within and across the MLP+F levels, their subsystems, and the system as a whole. Alternative scenarios were created based on recommendations from the expert panel, to test how activating one or more interventions in the system could impact system behavior and move it in a desired direction. A new technology - a swine manure dewatering process - was also introduced in Chapter 4 to better understand how a specific intervention fit the system and whether activating drivers in other levels support its adoption.Themes emerged from these analyses that support the key takeaways in Chapter 1, including: the need to engage multiple stakeholder groups, that stakeholders must understand the system, that goals must be clearly defined, that successful transitions often occur incrementally, and that the landscape must provide a safe space for niche innovation to develop. Two barriers to successful transition is the NC SWM model are a lack of funding (niche support) and clear communication among stakeholder groups (system understanding). Funding refers primarily to providing support to better understand what is driving the need for change, as well as creating financially viable pathways for moving innovation into practice. Communication is a more nuanced challenge in terms of aligning the diverse stakeholder group perspectives, requiring leadership, knowledge transfer, and platforms that extend greater agency to underrepresented perspectives. While the NC SWM conceptual model does not prescribe the solution for a sociotechnical transition, it does provide insights into the barriers and possible leverage points for how agents working within the system can seek alignment toward that goal.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798841527374Subjects--Topical Terms:

2084683
Manures.
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