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2: ContextWe need to come to common understandings of context - across contexts - and we need 'models' that can help one community learn from the experiences of others. In a world of 'distinction', where the specificity (or identity) of the local is what distinguishes one place, one product, one idea from the undifferentiated mass, the role of context in local development cannot be overemphasised. And this applies to contexts across scales - internal contexts and external contexts. The reliance of our models in their multiplicity upon the details of context is what makes them so powerful in terms of their intended outcome, despite the difficulties they raise when we seek to generalize or replicate them. The following subsections address contexts that the group felt important.
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