Facilitating Co-Production of Transdisciplinary Knowledge for Sustainability: Working with Canadian Biosphere Reserve Practitioners

Reed, Maureen G.; Abernethy, Paivi

doi:10.1080/08941920.2017.1383545

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“…The distinction is captured by Pohl et al (2010), who contrast brokered approaches that "stabiliz [e] the social identities" of different actor groups, and approaches through which the boundaries between groups are blurred, producing a "'messiness' of 'divided identities'" that ultimately "reshape the involved groups' 'perceptions, behaviour and agendas'" (p. 270). Further, we also argue that the role of facilitation may (and does, in the cases below) feature in both brokered and agora framings but that the facilitation function may be distinctly different in each (Reed & Abernethy, 2018).…”

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“…The growing body of empirical evidence on transdisciplinary knowledge co-production offers a wealth of approaches, success factors, and potential outcomes that might be achieved (e.g., Cochrane et al, 2017;Pohl et al, 2010;Reed & Abernethy, 2018). For researchers, programme developers, and other stakeholders drawn to the stated promises of co-production, navigating this range of possible approaches presents an important new challenge that this paper explores.…”

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Charting knowledge co‐production pathways in climate and development

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2019

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Climate change poses significant global challenges. Solutions require new ways of working, thinking, and acting. Knowledge co-production is often cited as one of the innovations needed for navigating the complexity of climate change challenges, yet how to best approach co-production processes remains unclear. In this article, we explore the ways in which climate and development researchers are approaching the co-production of knowledge and grapple with the extent to which the modalities used are reaching their stated potential. Using a multiple case analysis of six examples of successful co-production, we outline a spectrum of co-production approaches and outcomes and examine the drivers and challenges to co-production in practice.Drawing on the case evidence and literature, we propose a heuristic that maps out this spectrum of aims and approaches to co-production and that could inform reflections on how those planning co-production processes envision them in practice.

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Charting knowledge co‐production pathways in climate and development

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2019

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“…Facilitators who work independently of the sponsoring agency can provide neutrality and consistency in committee proceedings. Trained facilitators can also help to ensure minority voices are heard, and promote healthy deliberative committee-directed discussion to encourage and broaden learning outcomes (Reed and Abernethy 2018).…”

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Public engagement in forest governance in Canada: whose values are being represented anyway?

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Researchers and advocates have long argued that on-going engagement by broad segments of the public can help make forests and forest-based communities more sustainable and decisions more enduring. In Canada, public engagement in sustainable forest management has primarily taken one of two approaches – advisory forums through forest-sector advisory committees (FACs) and direct decision-making authority through community forest boards (CFBs). The purpose of this paper is to compare these two approaches by focusing on who participates and the values participants bring to their deliberations. We conducted a national survey of FACs and CFBs, involving 402 participants. Results showed that both models favoured well-educated, Caucasian men and fell short on the representation of women and Indigenous peoples. Additionally, despite different levels of authority in relation to forest management decisions, participants in CFBs and FACs shared similar forest values. Hence, we conclude neither model of forest governance encourages participation from a diverse public. Our findings suggest the need to find new ways of recruiting diverse participants and to investigate more deeply whether local and extra-local pressures and power dynamics shape these processes. Such information can inform the establishment of more robust institutions for decision making in support of sustainable forest management.

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“…One focus has been the development of frameworks for dealing with contextual, cultural and institutional factors (Bornmann 2013;Belcher et al 2016). Specific attention has been paid to productive interactions, facilitation, co-reflection that produce shared accountability, and reflexive approaches for continuous adaptation of research processes (Roux et al 2010;Spaapen and Van Drooge 2011;Popa et al 2015;Reed and Abernathy 2016;O'Malley et al 2019;Lux et al 2019;respectively). Other proposals have concerned transition experiments, a focus on narrative evaluation methods and navigation of power in transitions (Spaapen and Van Drooge 2011;Luederitz et al 2017;Schipper et al 2019;Termer and Dewulf 2019).…”

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Evaluative and enabling infrastructures: supporting the ability of urban co-production processes to contribute to societal change

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As widely attested in the literature, the evaluation of co-production is complex and unsuited to the use of conventional quality, monitoring and evaluation indicators. This reflects the uncertainties, co-contributory factors and time lags involved, particularly when seeking to assess institutional and wider societal effects of multistakeholder participatory processes and deliberative fora. The most widely assessed effects include the immediate outputs and outcomes of a project or activity (socalled first order effects) while wider societal or third order effects continue to be the most difficult to capture and, consequently, are the least well studied. Because of this difficulty, the intermediate, second order effects of organisational transformation and policy implementation constitute a growing challenge for evaluation. This is our focus here. After 10 years of transdisciplinary co-productive research practice, Mistra Urban Futures, as an interstitial research space bridging academia and practice working through city-based institutional partnerships called platforms, has reached a phase where some of these effects are becoming distinguishable. Accordingly, we discuss the prerequisites for co-production practitioners, including policy makers, to engage their respective organisations in transitional and incremental experimentation in order to achieve relevant institutional changes. This requires enabling infrastructures that support training, facilitation and the creation of 'safe' spaces to promote trust and legitimacy. These are needed to underpin the longlasting personal and organisational commitments which are crucial to achieve transformative organisational effects.

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Facilitating Co-Production of Transdisciplinary Knowledge for Sustainability: Working with Canadian Biosphere Reserve Practitioners

Cited by 53 publications

References 43 publications

Charting knowledge co‐production pathways in climate and development

Charting knowledge co‐production pathways in climate and development

Public engagement in forest governance in Canada: whose values are being represented anyway?

Evaluative and enabling infrastructures: supporting the ability of urban co-production processes to contribute to societal change

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