Social-ecology in livestock production systems
Veranstaltungstyp: Vorlesung
Beschreibung: Contents
Theoretical background of the socio-ecological system view: System theory, 1st and 2nd order
cybernetics, complex adaptive systems, human activity systems.
Actor oriented approach to understand and influence low external input systems:
- Local knowledge and situated practices
- Methodology for understanding local knowledge: Second order observation and knowledge
analysis
- Collaborative learning: Exchange between knowledge systems, dialogue, action research,
livestock farmer experimentation, participatory monitoring and evaluation
Modelling of livestock systems as tool for collaborative learning: Bio-economic modelling, multi-agent
modelling, role plays.


Objectives
Students understand livestock systems as socio-ecological systems in which livestock farmers through
their actions establish, maintain and develop the respective production system. Consequently, these socalled
human activity systems are assessed using an actor oriented approach. Emphasis of this module
is on methods that are used to analyse and improve livestock farmers" management. This serves to
understand "why livestock farmers do what they do" and "how livestock farmers produce". Students
learn how they can make use of the knowledge of livestock farmers to better understand how low
external input systems work. Collaborative learning is introduced as methodology to develop human
activity systems in a transdisciplinary research approach. They deal with the question of how mutual
understanding between livestock farmers and scientists can be achieved despite the different
knowledge systems. Students obtain a profound insight into methods for farmer experimentations in
which livestock farmers and scientists collaborate, and into using computer models as learning tools for
ex-ante assessment of improvement measures in community based approaches. In what - if analyses
the change of action rules on the performance of socio-ecological systems is assessed.

Examination requirements:
Social-ecological systems analysis; systems theory, cybernetic, complex adaptive
systems, human activity systems. Local knowledge and situated practices; analysis of
local knowledge; cooperative learning; modelling of livestock husbandry systems.

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Ort: nicht angegeben
Semester: SoSe 2024
Zeiten: Termine am Mittwoch, 17.07.2024 12:00 - 13:30, Montag, 29.07.2024 - Freitag, 02.08.2024, Montag, 05.08.2024 - Freitag, 09.08.2024, Montag, 12.08.2024 09:00 - 15:00
Erster Termin: Mittwoch, 17.07.2024 12:00 - 13:30
Veranstaltungsnummer: 740614
Voraussetzungen: Basic knowledge (B.Sc. level) of soil, plant and animal sciences
Leistungsnachweis: →Ab hier automatisch erfasste Informationen / Beyond this point, the information is filled in automatically← Prüfungsleistung(en) je Modul / Exam details per module: * [(M.SIA.A08.Mp) Social-ecology in livestock production systems][1] * Klausur: Mo, 12.08.2024, von 10:00:00 bis 12:00:00 * Klausur: Fr, 11.10.2024, von 10:00:00 bis 12:00:00 [1]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=32416&periodId=272
Sonstiges: Literature:
Kaufmann, B.A. 2007: Cybernetic analysis of socio-biological systems: The case of
livestock management in resource poor systems. In: Kommunikation und Beratung,
Volume 81, Margraf Publishing; McCown, R.L. 2002: Changing systems for supporting
farmers' decisions: problems, paradigms and prospects. Agricultural Systems 74:
179-220; Wiener, N. 1948: Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and
the machine. John Wiley, New York.
Weitere Informationen aus Stud.IP zu dieser Veranstaltung
Heimatinstitut: Department für Nutztierwissenschaften
beteiligte Institute: Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics
In Stud.IP angemeldete Teilnehmer: 5
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