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Foster, Natalie; Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris and Collins, Kevin (2019). Revisiting deliberative policy analysis through systemic co-inquiry: some experiences from the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in England. Policy Studies, 40 pp. 510–533.

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Foster, Natalie; Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris and Collins, Kevin (2018). Partnerships for action in river catchment governance. A case study in the Irwell, UK. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Blackmore, Chris; Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah and Ison, Ray (2018). Developing Learning Systems For Addressing Uncertainty In Farming, Food And Environment: What Has Changed In Recent Times? International Journal of Agricultural Extension 03-15.

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Ruiu, Maria Laura; Maurizi, Sante; Sassu, Simone; Seddaiu, Giovanna; Zuin, Olga; Blackmore, Chris and Roggero, Pier Paolo (2017). Re-Staging La Rasgioni: Lessons Learned from Transforming a Traditional Form of Conflict Resolution to Engage Stakeholders in Agricultural Water Governance. Water, 9(4), article no. 297.

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de Vries, Jasper R.; van Bommel, Severine; Blackmore, Chris and Asano, Yoshiko (2017). Where There Is No History: How to Create Trust and Connection in Learning for Transformation in Water Governance. Water, 9(2) p. 130.

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Reynolds, M.; Blackmore, C.; Ison, R.; Shah, R. and Wedlock, E. (2017). The role of systems thinking in the practice of implementing sustainable development goals. In: Leal Filho, Walter ed. Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research. Springer, pp. 677–698.

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Blackmore, Chris; Foster, Natalie; Collins, Kevin and Ison, Ray (2017). Understanding and developing communities of practice through diagramming. In: Oreszczyn, Sue and Lane, Andy eds. Mapping environmental sustainability: reflecting on systemic practices for participatory research. London: Policy Press, pp. 155–182.

Reynolds, M.; Shah, R.; Wedlock, E.; Ison, R. L. and Blackmore, C. (2017). From competence to capability: learning laboratories in postgraduate pedagogy. In: 6th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2017: STEM Futures: Supporting Students to Succeed, 25-26 Apr 2017, Milton Keynes, UK.

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van Bommel, Séverine; Blackmore, Chris; Foster, Natalie and de Vries, Jasper (2016). Performing and orchestrating governance learning for systemic transformation in practice for climate change adaptation. Outlook on Agriculture, 45(4) pp. 231–237.

Blackmore, Chris; van Bommel, Severine; de Bruin, Annemarieke; de Vries, Jasper; Westberg, Lotten; Powell, Niel; Foster, Natalie; Collins, Kevin; Roggero, Pier Paolo and Seddaiu, Giovanna (2016). Learning for Transformation of Water Governance: Reflections on Design from the Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance (CADWAGO) Project. Water, 8(11), article no. 510.

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Foster, Natalie; Collins, Kevin; Ison, Ray and Blackmore, Chris (2016). Water Governance in England: Improving Understandings and Practices through Systemic Co-Inquiry. Water, 5, article no. 540.

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Jiggins, Janice; Blackmore, Chris; Ison, Ray and Röling, Niels (2016). The governance of farming and natural resource management. Outlook on Agriculture, 45(4) pp. 217–219.

Blackmore, Chris and Ison, Ray (2016). Transforming to Sustainable Futures: Learning From 45 Years of Systems Thinking In Practice Pedagogy. In: 60th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), 23-30 Jul 2016, Boulder, Colorado.

Foster, Natalie; Collins, Kevin; Ison, Raymond and Blackmore, Chris (2015). Water governance in the UK and EU: So far, so what and what next? Symposium Report. 16th September 2015, Royal Society, London. The Open University, Milton Keynes.

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Blackmore, Chris; Reynolds, Martin; Ison, Raymond and Lane, Andrew (2015). Embedding sustainability through systems thinking in practice: some experiences from the Open University. In: Wyness, Lynne ed. Education for Sustainable Development Pedagogy: Criticality, Creativity, and Collaboration. PedRIO occasional papers (8). Plymouth University: Pedagogic Research Institute and Observatory (PedRIO), pp. 32–35.

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Blackmore, Chris; Ison, Raymond and Reynolds, Martin (2015). Thinking differently about sustainability: experiences from the UK Open University. In: Filho, Walter Leal; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; Alves, Fátima and Caeiro, Sandra eds. Integrating Sustainability Thinking in Science and Engineering Curricula. World Sustainability Series. Cham: Springer, pp. 613–630.

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Blackmore, C. P.; Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah and Ison, Ray (2015). Designing and evaluating a conference-based critical social learning system to support systems thinking in practice in PhD research. In: Proc. ISSS Conference, 2-7 Aug 2015, Berlin.

Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris; Collins, Kevin; Holwell, Sue and Iaquinto, Ben (2014). Insights into operationalizing communities of practice from SSM-based inquiry processes. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 27 pp. 91–113.

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Blackmore, Chris (2014). Learning to change farming and water management practices in response to the challenges of climate change and sustainability. Outlook on Agriculture, 43(3) pp. 173–178.

Colvin, John; Blackmore, Chris; Chimbuya, Sam; Collins, Kevin; Dent, Mark; Goss, John; Ison, Ray; Roggero, Pier Paolo and Seddaiu, Giovanna (2014). In search of systemic innovation for sustainable development: a design praxis emerging from a decade of social learning inquiry. Research Policy, 43 pp. 760–771.

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Blackmore, Chris (2014). Learning systems, innovation and 'the wrong kind of weather'. In: 11th European International Farming Systems Association Symposium: Farming Systems Facing Global Challenges: Capacities and Strategies, 1-4 Apr 2014, Berlin, Germany.

Ison, Ray and Blackmore, Chris (2014). Designing and developing a reflexive learning system for managing systemic change. Systems, 2(2) pp. 119–136.

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Ison, Ray; Collins, Kevin; Blackmore, Chris and Lonsdale, Kate (2014). Towards systemic governance of social-biophysical systems: social learning as collaborative performance. In: Resilience & Development: Mobilising for Transformation, 4-8 May 2014, Montpelier, France.

Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris and Iaquinto, Benjamin L. (2013). Towards systemic and adaptive governance: exploring the revealing and concealing aspects of contemporary social-learning metaphors. Ecological Economics, 87 pp. 34–42.

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Fazey, Ioan; Evely, Anna C.; Reed, Mark S.; Stringer, Lindsay C.; Kruijsen, Joanneke; White, Piran C. L.; Newsham, Andrew; Jin, Lixian; Cortazzi, Martin; Phillipson, Jeremy; Blackstock, Kirsty; Entwhistle, Noel; Sheate, William; Armstrong, Fiona; Blackmore, Chris; Fazey, John; Ingram, Julie; Gregson, Jon; Lowe, Philip; Morton, Sarah and Trevitt, Chris (2013). Knowledge exchange: a review and research agenda for environmental management. Environmental Conservation, 40(1) pp. 19–36.

Blackmore, Chris (2013). Knowledge, learning and societal change for sustainibilty. In: Freedman, Bill and Rogers, Deborah S. eds. Global Environmental Change. Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution (1). Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 951–958.

Reynolds, Martin and Blackmore, Chris (2013). Two cultures? Working with moral dilemmas in environmental science. AWERProcedia Advances in Applied Sciences, 1 pp. 233–240.

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Blackmore, Chris; Ison, Ray and Collins, Kevin (2013). Supporting Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation Through Systemic Praxis. In: Communication for the Commons: Revisiting Participation and Environment. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Communication and Environment (Meisner, Mark S.; Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah and Depoe, Stephen P. eds.), The International Environmental Communication Association, pp. 107–117.

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Blackmore, Chris; Cerf, Marianne; Ison, Raymond and Paine, Mark (2012). The role of action-oriented learning theories for change in agriculture and rural networks. In: Darnhofer, Ika; Gibbon, David and Dedieu, Benoit eds. Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 159–177.

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Blackmore, Chris (2012). Landscapes of practices, social learning systems and rural innovation. In: The 10th European IFSA symposium: Producing and Reproducing Farming Systems: New Modes of Organisation for Sustainable Food Systems of Tomorrow, 1-4 Jul 2012, Aarhus, Denmark.

Blackmore, Chris and Ison, Ray (2012). Designing and developing learning systems for managing systemic change in a climate change world. In: Wals, Arjen E. J. and Corcoran, Peter Blaze eds. Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 347–363.

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Blackmore, C. (2012). Sustainability. In: Chadwick, Ruth; Árnason, Vilhjálmur; Faunce, Thomas; Gillies, Alan; Holm, Soren; McGee, Glenn; Poff, Deborah; Reynolds, Martin and Zwart, Hub eds. Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Second Edition), Volume 4. Elsevier, pp. 274–280.

Hubert, Bernard; Ison, Ray; Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah; Blackmore, Chris; Cerf, Marianne; Avelange, Isabelle; Barbier, Marc and Steyaert, Patrick (2012). Learning in European agricultural and rural networks: building a systemic research agenda. In: Darnhofer, Ika; Gibbon, David and Dedieu, Benoit eds. Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: The New Dynamic. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 179–200.

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Ison, Ray and Blackmore, Chris (2012). Designing and developing a reflexive learning system for managing systemic change in a climate-change world based on cyber-systemic understandings. In: European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2012), 09-13 Apr 2012, Vienna.

Blackmore, C.; Collins, K.; Ison, R.; Colvin, J. and Wallis, P. (2012). Social learning systems for collective action: a critical review of cases from UK, South Africa, China and Australia using social learning systems. In: Planet Under Pressure 2012, 25-29 Mar 2012, London, UK.

Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah; Bawden, Richard; Blackmore, Chris; Tidball, Keith G. and Wals, Arjen E. J . (2010). Resilience in learning systems: case studies in university education. Environmental Education Research, 16(5 & 6) pp. 559–573.

Blackmore, Chris (2010). Learning for communication about climate change in the context of farming using Vickers’ concept of an appreciative system. In: Darnhofer, Ika and Grötzer, Michaela eds. Building Sustainable Rural Futures: The Added Value of Systems Approaches. Proceedings of the 9th European International Farming Systems Association Symposium. Vienna: Universität für Bodenkultur, pp. 2228–2236.

Blackmore, Chris ed. (2010). Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice. Springer.

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Blackmore, Chris (2010). Managing systemic change: future roles for social learning systems and communities of practice? In: Blackmore, Chris ed. Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice. Springer, pp. 201–218.

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Blackmore, Chris (2009). Learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Reynolds, Martin; Blackmore, Chris and Smith, Mark J. eds. (2009). The Environmental Responsibility Reader. London, UK: Zed Books and The Open University.

Reynolds, Martin; Blackmore, Chris and Smith, Mark (2009). Epilogue. In: Reynolds, Martin; Blackmore, Christine and Smith, Mark eds. The Environmental Responsibility Reader. Zed Books and The Open University, pp. 341–347.

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Furniss, Pamela and Blackmore, Chris (2009). Tools and techniques for environmental decision making. In: Wilson, Gordon; Furniss, Pamela and Kimbowa, Richard eds. Environment, Development, and Sustainability: Perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 250–258.

Blackmore, Chris (2009). Social learning and environmental responsibility. In: Reynolds, Martin; Blackmore, Christine and Smith, Mark J. eds. The Environmental Responsibility Reader. Zed Books, pp. 229–235.

Blackmore, Chris (2008). Enabling Duality in Teaching and Learning Environmental Decision Making - A Role for Communities of Practice? In: Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul eds. Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, Volume 2. Information Age Publishing.

Collins, Kevin; Blackmore, Chris; Morris, Richard and Watson, Drennan (2007). A systemic approach to managing multiple perspectives and stakeholding in water catchments: some findings from three UK case studies. Environmental Science and Policy, 10(6) pp. 564–574.

Blackmore, Chris (2007). What kinds of knowledge, knowing and learning are required for addressing resource dilemmas? A theoretical overview. Environmental Science and Policy, 10(6) pp. 512–525.

Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris and Armson, Rosalind (2007). Learning Participation as Systems Practice. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 13(3) pp. 209–225.

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Blackmore, Chris and Ison, Ray (2007). Boundaries for thinking in action. In: Blackmore, Christine and Ison, Raymond eds. Research Skills for Policy and Development: How to Find Out Fast. London, UK: Sage Publications, pp. 47–71.

Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris; Collins, Kevin and Furniss, Pam (2007). Systemic environmental decision making: designing learning systems. Kybernetes, 36(9-10) pp. 1340–1361.

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Blackmore, B. S. and Blackmore, C. P. (2007). People, Robots and Systemic Decision Making. In: Stafford, J. V. ed. Precision agriculture '07. Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 433–439.

Blackmore, Chris; Ison, Raymond and Jiggins, Janice (2007). Social learning: an alternative policy instrument for managing in the context of Europe's water. Environmental Science & Policy, 10(6) pp. 493–498.

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Morris, Dick; Oreszczyn, Sue; Blackmore, Christine; Ison, Raymond and Martin, Stephen (2006). A Systemic approach to scoping of factors influencing more sustainable land use in Herefordshire. Local Environment, 11(6) pp. 683–699.

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Blackmore, Chris (2006). Where do participatory approaches meet social learning systems in the context of environmental decision making? In: Langevel, Hans and Rolings, Niels eds. Changing European farming systems for a better future: new visions for rural areas. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 29–34.

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Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris and Collins, Kevin (2006). Learning to start systemically in environmental decision making. In: 7th European IFSA Symposium, 7-11 May 2006, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Collins, Kevin; Ison, Ray and Blackmore, Chris (2005). River basin planning project: social learning (Science Report SC050037/SR1). Environment Agency, Bristol, UK.

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Blackmore, Christine (2005). Learning to appreciate learning systems for environmental decision making – a 'work-in-progress' perspective. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 22(4) pp. 329–341.

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Hubert, Bernard; Avelange, Isabelle; Proost, M. D. C.; Ison, Ray and Blackmore, Chris (2005). LEARNing in European Agricultural and Rural Networks: institutions, networks and governance. Final Report. Contract no. HPSE-CT-2002-60059. INRA France.

Blackmore, Chris (2004). From one-off events to learning systems and communities of practice. In: (Pre)Proceedings of 6th IFSA European Symposium, 4-7 Apr 2004, Vila Real, Portugal.

Ison, Ray; Blackmore, Chris and Armson, Rosalind (2003). Learning participation as systems practice. In: International Workshop on Teaching and Learning Participation in Higher Education, 2-4 Apr 2003, Brighton, UK.

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Blackmore, Christine and Smyth, John (2002). Living with the big picture: a systems approach to citizenship of a complex planet. In: Dower, Nigel and Williams, John eds. Global Citizenship: A critical reader. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.

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Blackmore, C. P. (2002). Learning about learning as systemic practice in the context of environmental decision-making. In: Pre-proceedings of 5th IFSA European Symposium, 8-11 Apr 2002, Florence, Italy.

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Blackmore, Chris and Morris, Dick (2001). Systems and environmental decision-making: postgraduate open learning with the Open University. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 14(6) pp. 681–695.

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Ison, R. L.; High, C.; Blackmore, C. P. and Cerf, M. (2000). Theoretical frameworks for learning-based approaches to change in industrialised-country agricultures. In: Cerf, Marianne; Gibbon, David; Hubert, Bernard; Ison, Ray; Jiggins, Janice; Paine, Mark; Proost, Jet and Röling, Niels eds. Cow up a Tree: Knowing and Learning for Change in Agriculture. Case Studies from Industrialised Countries. Science update. Paris: INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) Editions, pp. 31–54.