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Essential concepts
Two-eyed seeing (see for example Reid et al. 2020)
Multiple Evidence Base (MEB) approach (see for example Tengö et al. 2014)
Critical Social Science (Those that tackle fundamental questions about power dynamics in societies (e.g. how do they emerge, replicate, and reinforce themselves? How do they create barriers for change? See our related project here)
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