Co-production of knowledge–action systems in urban sustainable governance: The KASA approach

Muñoz‐Erickson, Tischa A.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2013.09.014

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“…There are two main interpretations and uses for the term "co-production" [9,21,24]. Within the sustainability science community, knowledge co-production, as van Kerkhoff and Lebel [9] define it, is a prescriptive and instrumental form as it invokes an agenda where relationships can and should be deliberatively designed and managed for improving the scientific basis of decision-making at the project and program scale.…”

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How Cities Think: Knowledge Co-Production for Urban Sustainability and Resilience

Muñoz‐Erickson¹,

Miller

2017

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Understanding and transforming how cities think is a crucial part of developing effective knowledge infrastructures for the Anthropocene. In this article, we review knowledge co-production as a popular approach in environmental and sustainability science communities to the generation of useable knowledge for sustainability and resilience. We present knowledge systems analysis as a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding existing co-production processes as preconditions to the design of new knowledge infrastructures in cities. Knowledge systems are the organizational practices and routines that make, validate, communicate, and apply knowledge. The knowledge systems analysis framework examines both the workings of these practices and routines and their interplay with the visions, values, social relations, and power dynamics embedded in the governance of building sustainable cities. The framework can be useful in uncovering hidden relations and highlighting the societal foundations that shape what is (and what is not) known by cities and how cities can co-produce new knowledge with meaningful sustainability and resilience actions and transformations. We highlight key innovations and design philosophies that we think can advance research and practice on knowledge co-production for urban sustainability and resilience.

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How Cities Think: Knowledge Co-Production for Urban Sustainability and Resilience

Muñoz‐Erickson¹,

Miller

2017

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“…Knowledge-action systems analysis was developed to expose and disentangle the political (visions and frames), epistemological (knowledge systems), and structural (networks) dynamics of governance actors as they advance specific policies, decisions, and actions related to sustainability. Knowledge-action systems refer to the formal and informal networks of individuals and organizations in which knowledge, ideas, and strategies for sustainability are being produced, evaluated, and validated (Muñoz-Erickson 2014). Visions here are the expectations and desires that social groups have for the future (Wiek and Iwaniec 2013) and which reflect those specified qualities of sustainability being constructed and prioritized.…”

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“…In this way, the different ways of knowing and framing the system, which influence visions, are included as part of the governance analysis. The theoretical and methodological details of the KASA approach and SNA tools can be found elsewhere (Muñoz-Erickson 2012, 2014, but I summarized the SNA methods used to identify the central actors, which serve as the unit of analysis for analyzing visions. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art2/…”

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“…Ecology and Society 19(3): 2 http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art2/ Knowledge-action systems must be able to also anticipate, manage, and address the politics that emerge as cities reconfigure themselves to address sustainability (Muñoz-Erickson 2014). Given that urban sustainability brings up many different issues to different people, knowledge-action systems will be most effective to the extent that they are linked to the complex political and cultural configurations of cities as SES.…”

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“…At the same time, modern urban development models, which have put people at risk in the past, e.g., to flooding, continue to dominate the economic sector and much of state planning. Underlying these efforts are different ways of seeing the city and expectations of how San Juan should develop in the future (Muñoz-Erickson 2014).…”

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Multiple Pathways to Sustainability in the City: the Case of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Muñoz‐Erickson¹

2014

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ABSTRACT. I examined the multiple visions of the future of the city that can emerge when city actors and organizations reconfigure themselves to address sustainability. In various cities worldwide, novel ideas, initiatives, and networks are emerging in governance to address social and ecological conditions in urban areas. However, cities can be contested spaces, bringing a plurality of actors, network configurations, preferences, and knowledge that shape the politics over desirable pathways for future development. I used the knowledge-action systems analysis (KASA) approach to examine the frames and knowledge systems influencing how different actors involved in the land governance network of the city of San Juan constructed visions for the future of the city. Results revealed four visions for the city coexisting in San Juan. Although sustainability is a goal that cuts across all four visions, they each optimized distinct dimensions of the concept. The contrasts in visions can be explained in part by competing frames of the urban social-ecological system and power asymmetries in the multiple knowledge systems coexisting in the city. I discussed the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of the politics of sustainability for adaptive urban governance research and practice. The KASA approach can serve as a window into the adaptive capacity of the city by disentangling the competing ways that actors 'see' and 'know' the urban social-ecological systems. Most importantly, this approach offers a way of appraising sustainable pathways by revealing either the extent to which dominant social structures and cognitive patterns are being reinforced, or whether opportunities for innovative and transformative approaches are emerging in the city.

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Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social–ecological systems

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Abstract.Governance is key to sustainable urban transitions. Governance is a system of social, power, and decision-making processes that acts as a key driver of resource allocation and use, yet ecologistseven urban ecologists-seldom consider governance concepts in their work. Transitions to more sustainable futures are becoming increasingly important to the management of many ecosystems and landscapes, and particularly so for urban systems. We briefly identify and synthesize important governance dimensions of urban sustainability transitions, using illustrations from cities in which long-term social-ecological governance research is underway. This article concludes with a call to ecologists who are interested in environmental stewardship, and to urban ecologists in particular, to consider the role of governance as a driver in the dynamics of the systems they study.

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Co-production of knowledge–action systems in urban sustainable governance: The KASA approach

Cited by 90 publications

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How Cities Think: Knowledge Co-Production for Urban Sustainability and Resilience

How Cities Think: Knowledge Co-Production for Urban Sustainability and Resilience

Multiple Pathways to Sustainability in the City: the Case of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social–ecological systems

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