Government science in forestry: Characteristics and policy utilization

Klenk, Nicole; Hickey, Gordon M.

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2010.08.005

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“…We used a broad definition of research including all fields of study (social, life, physical) conducted in the north. Such surveys have been widely used in the evaluation of research policy and planning (Garrett-Jones and others 2005; Klenk and Hickey 2013; Klenk and Hickey 2011; Turpin and Garrett-Jones 2009). As the population and composition of northern research stakeholders in Canada is unknown, we used a purposive sampling strategy to obtain diverse perspectives from different stakeholder groups and help reduce coverage bias (Sue and Ritter 2012).…”

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Local participation and partnership development in Canada's Arctic research: challenges and opportunities in an age of empowerment and self-determination

2016

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An important component of northern research in Canada has been a strong emphasis on local participation. However, the policy and permit landscape for community participation therein is heterogeneous and presents specific challenges in promoting effective partnerships between researchers and local participants. We conducted a survey of northern research stakeholders across Canada in order better to understand the benefits and challenges associated with research partnerships with a view to informing northern research policy and practice. We found that local engagement at the proposal and research design phases, the hiring of community researchers and engagement of local persons at the results dissemination phase were important factors affecting success. Respondents also indicated a lack of social capital (trust and reciprocity) between researchers and communities as placing a negative impact on science partnerships. Overall, researchers were perceived to benefit more from research partnerships than their community counterparts. Partnerships in northern research will possibly require further decentralisation of power to achieve the policy objectives of local community participation. This could be achieved, in part, by allowing non-academic principal investigators to receive funding, or by involving communities in research priority-setting, proposal review and funding allocation processes.

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“…Given the strategic objectives of the Model Forest Program (Pollett, 2008) and the particular focus of the most recent phase of funding for Canadian Model Forests (Natural Resources Canada, 2001), it is interesting to note that individual model forests' potential to influence decision-making by engaging in educational, demonstration, or research activities has been assessed with an expectation that they should effectively change forest management practices or policies. But there is a complex and uncertain path between conducting research and educational activities and influencing decision-making in forestry (Klenk and Hickey, 2011).…”

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Models of Representation and Participation in Model Forests: Dilemmas and Implications for Networked Forms of Environmental Governance Involving Indigenous People

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Our study of two Model Forests illustrates the complex nature of representation in governance networks, in which different traditions of governance, persistent political disagreement and historical adversaries work together to achieve some goal. Using Pitkin's (1967) models of representation, we examined the role of social practices in giving meaning to representation in two model forests in Canada and in Sweden. Two normative models of representation (e.g., trustee and delegate) guided our interpretation of the enactment of representation in the two model forests mainly by highlighting how such models may be culturally biased-resulting in dilemmas of governance for actors that do not ascribe such meanings to representation. These insights led to a greater appreciation for the significance of politics in the enactment of representation, especially with regards to the political aspirations that motivate participatory and deliberative environmental governance. Our analysis suggests that the legitimacy and effectiveness of natural resource and environmental governance networks are affected by the rules structuring participation and deliberation, which are substantiated in social practices of representation in these networks. Our work further suggests that the analysis of representation in network forms of governance cannot be separated from an analysis of the politics of competing interests, especially whose interests are advanced and how these interests are given voice in steering environmental governance.

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“…Scientific forestry has generally supported an instrumental rationality that is underpinned by the belief that forest ecosystems can be managed effectively using applied forest research, mainly produced in government research organizations, but also produced by other organizations (e.g., academic organizations, industry, foundations, international multi-sector research networks, non-governmental organizations, among others). The validity of scientific forestry has increasingly been determined on the basis of academic norms and practices, such as publishing research results in peer-review journals; however, the criteria by which to assess the relevance and utility of research results remains an outstanding issue (Klenk and Hickey 2011). In the context of adaptation within SFM, the objective of the mode of knowledge production (mode 1) embodied in scientific forestry is to provide "answers" to the problems occasioned by climate change.…”

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Climate change adaptation and sustainable forest management: A proposed reflexive research agenda

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This article is a synthesis of the salient topics discussed in the Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Workshop, held at the University of British Columbia, February 14-16, 2011, and lays out a research agenda based on the recommendations for future research that emerged in the workshop. The proposed research agenda is framed using the theory of reflexive modernization to enable the forest research community to consider how different modes of knowledge production can support adaptation within SFM. The workshop discussions highlighted the importance of considering extreme events and high uncertainty in planning for adaptation within SFM. Participants discussed the utility of climate change modeling and risk assessment for local decision-making. In addition, there was general agreement that adaptive collaborative management could facilitate adaptation within SFM, despite difficulties in implementation. The recommendations for future research that emerged from the workshop focused on climate change-related assessments, modeling techniques, and governance and institutional enablers/barriers to adaptation. This broad research agenda, however, can be approached using different modes of knowledge production, illustrating different orders of reflexivity. Apart from a call for more traditional academic research to improve SFM under climate change, workshop participants referred to the need for participatory research, in which researchers would be embedded in communities and other contexts of application, engaging in a "client-focused" partnership model to produce knowledge that is robust, compelling, legitimate and, above all, locally relevant. It is hoped that this alternative mode of knowledge production would result in a social license and greater political will to accelerate adaptation within SFM.

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Government science in forestry: Characteristics and policy utilization

Cited by 27 publications

References 51 publications

Local participation and partnership development in Canada's Arctic research: challenges and opportunities in an age of empowerment and self-determination

Local participation and partnership development in Canada's Arctic research: challenges and opportunities in an age of empowerment and self-determination

Models of Representation and Participation in Model Forests: Dilemmas and Implications for Networked Forms of Environmental Governance Involving Indigenous People

Climate change adaptation and sustainable forest management: A proposed reflexive research agenda

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