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Issues related to social-ecological systems and environmental governance are complex, in terms of the increasingly diverse range of players and multiple political scales from the local to the global. Gaining a better understanding of this complexity requires a diverse range of methodological tools and approaches. Stoddart et al. discuss a research process characterized by methodological omnivorousness, methodological pragmatism, and mobile methodologies. This multi-method approach offers a pragmatic and pluralist alternative to qualitative-quantitative dichotomies that persist but are unhelpful for creating complex research accounts of social-ecological systems. This approach is well suited to analyses of cultural and socio-semantic networks, environmental governance, and social movement strategic interaction, across different social-political scales.
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Stoddart, M.C.J., Mattoni, A., McLevey, J. (2020). Epilogue on Methodology. In: Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55944-1_7
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