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- Title
Seeking our shared wisdom: a framework for understanding knowledge coproduction and coproductive capacities.
- Authors
Schuttenberg, H. Z.; Guth, Heidi K.
- Abstract
The widespread disconnect between scientific projections of climate change and the implementation of responsive management actions has escalated calls for knowledge production processes able to exercise a stronger voice in decision making. Recently, the concept of coproduction has been championed as a potential answer. The term 'knowledge coproduction' is used loosely in the literature to describe an inclusive, iterative approach to creating new information; it is distinguished by its focus on facilitating interactions between stakeholders to develop an integrated or transformational understanding of a sustainability problem. Whether a coproduction process is successful in this integration of science and policy depends on a range of capabilities that should be understood as 'coproductive capacities.' We draw on the literature from sustainability science to propose a conceptual framework that specifies the sequential goals of knowledge coproduction and potential sources of coproductive capacity. We apply this framework to examine our experience facilitating the coproduction of a climate change action plan for Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and World Heritage Site. This framework offers a structure for systematically investigating the capacities, mechanisms, and dynamics of knowledge coproduction and for guiding the design of coproduction processes.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change research; DECISION making in science; SUSTAINABLE development; CLIMATE research; SCIENCE &; state
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 1, p226
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-07038-200115