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The principles laid down in the ComMod Charter and presented in the general introduction relate to a stance or attitude towards how a specific issue and specific field are addressed by taking into account the various types of knowledge and perceptions already present and the use of certain tools. These principles suggest a framing for the teams committed to them, but the adaptation capacity in organizing the implementation of companion modelling in a given case study is in practice left to the commodian. This chapter aims to detail the diversity involved in implementing a ComMod process and the common points that emerge from it. The objective is to describe in order to understand better, with no normative intention.
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The ComMod Charter as it exists at the time of this work authorizes any person who has joined the group, and been accepted into it, to consider if his research work follows, or not, a companion modelling approach.
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Considering ‘non-humans’ as protagonists can be surprising. We are following here the sociology of translation that considers world objects as stakeholders in social and political networks used to understand social dynamics.
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Administration at the subdistrict level, which most often includes 10–12 villages.
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Barreteau, O., Bousquet, F., Étienne, M., Souchère, V., d’Aquino, P. (2014). Companion Modelling: A Method of Adaptive and Participatory Research. In: Étienne, M. (eds) Companion Modelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8557-0_2
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