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Practice stories (or practitioner profiles as we call them here) are useful learning tools. They open a window into lived experience, illustrating challenge and opportunity, as well as wisdom gained from this experience. The profiles collected here contain useful first-hand knowledge of the intersection of pest management and community engagement in both personal and professional experience. While practitioners reveal diverse objectives, they share a common desire to bring people together, across their differences, for mutually beneficial and acceptable outcomes. The result is a collection that shows how the interaction between ideas, experience and reflection can sustain an individual in their work with community, over time.
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The purposive sample was drawn from a long-standing network of researchers and practitioners that has been involved in the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (IACRC) program, which has a 17-year history. As a result, the sample has some demographic gaps—all practitioners were located on the eastern seaboard of Australia; there are only two women in the collection and no indigenous land managers. This represents an opportunity for future studies to capture these voices in this or other fields of environmental management.
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Senior Biodiversity and Pest Management Officer for the Queensland Murray Darling Committee (QMDC).
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Forester, J. (2016). The challenge of transformative learning: mining practice stories to study collaboration and dispute resolution strategies. In R. D. Margerum & C. J. Robinson (Eds.), The challenges of collaboration in environmental governance (pp. 338–354). London: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
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Howard, T.M., Alter, T.R., Frumento, P.Z., Thompson, L.J. (2019). Profile Introduction and Analysis. In: Community Pest Management in Practice. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2742-1_3
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