How knowledge enables governance: The coproduction of environmental governance capacity

Molen, Franke van der

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2018.05.016

Cited by 77 publications

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“…However, our findings suggest that knowledge governance discussions do not include and enable undergraduate disabled students as co-shapers of social and policy change through knowledge production. Knowledge creation and mobilisation enables governance [107], and governance mechanisms impact knowledge processes [108]. As such, it is within the scope of knowledge governance to engage with the gap in the literature we found.…”

Section: Knowledge Production and Its Governancementioning

confidence: 93%

“…Many academics discuss the politics of knowledge production [97][98][99][100][101][102][103] from various perspectives including that the politics of knowledge production is problematic in relation to disabled researchers [104] and disabled people [105]. Knowledge shapes society and is in need of governance [106][107][108][109]. Knowledge governance is "the intentional achievement of societal and policy change through the purposeful production and dissemination of knowledge" [106] (p. 606).…”

Section: Knowledge Production Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Lillywhite

Wolbring

2019

Education Sciences

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Research experience is beneficial for undergraduate students for many reasons. For example, it is argued in academic literature and in reports produced by various organizations that engage with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and science education that undergraduate research experience increases the graduation rate in STEM disciplines as well as the amount of students thinking about STEM careers. As such, being researchers should also be of benefit to undergraduate disabled students in all disciplines including STEM education. However, given that undergraduate disabled students encounter many problems within post-secondary education, including STEM education, undergraduate disabled students might encounter problems in becoming researchers. Policies are to be guided by knowledge and evidence. However, knowledge and evidence deficits exist in relation to the lived experience of disabled people. Undergraduate disabled students could decrease the knowledge deficit as researchers and knowledge producers. The numbers of disabled academic faculty are judged as being too low and efforts are under way to increase the number of disabled academics. Increasing the number of undergraduate disabled researchers might increase the available pool of disabled students that pursue an academic career. Given the important role research performed by undergraduate disabled students can play and given that many studies highlight problems for disabled students in post-secondary education in general, we used a scoping review approach to investigate the coverage of undergraduate disabled students as knowledge producers, including as researchers, in the academic literature. Using various search strategies, we obtained 1299 initial hits. However, only 15 had relevant content. No study investigated how undergraduate disabled students select their research topics or how they are enticed to pursue research projects outside of a course-based framework. No study looked at the linkage between being an undergraduate disabled researcher and career choices or using the obtained research skills on the undergraduate level in one's role as a community member after graduation. Our findings suggest an opportunity for many fields, ranging from disability studies to STEM education, to generate more empirical data and conceptual work on the role of undergraduate disabled students as knowledge producers including as researchers. Such studies could help to increase the numbers of undergraduate disabled students as knowledge producers, including researchers, which in turn could help to increase (a) the number of disabled academics, (b) the number of disabled students who perform research in the community after graduation, (c) the degree success of disabled students and (d) the knowledge available on the social situation of disabled people.

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Section: Knowledge Production and Its Governancementioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Knowledge Production Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Lillywhite

Wolbring

2019

Education Sciences

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“…However, steps must be taken to plan for these villages from their perspective, and not just focus on neighboring urban local bodies, as highlighted in Section 2.1 from the development plan of BSNA [33]. Molen [48] defines governance capacity as encompassing three aspects-regulatory, adaptive, and integrative-and infers the need for interactive and flexible arrangements for governance. The findings from this research add to this by formulating CLDs that depict relationships between the local body, SHGs, and NGOs, and suggesting the requirements for a sustainable model of SHG participation in the provision of sanitation and waste management services in the village.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enabling Collaborative Action between Self-Help Groups and Rural Local Bodies through an Exploratory Workshop: The Case of a Peri-Urban Village in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India

Kandpal¹,

Saizen²

2019

Sustainability

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Peri-urban areas in developing countries pose unique governance challenges because of their rapid development. Villages in these areas are under-served in terms of the provision of waste management services. This research focused on an exploratory workshop conducted in one peri-urban village in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India, to raise community awareness regarding the importance of contributing towards effective waste management in their village and the means by which they can do so. The findings of the workshop show its effectiveness in raising the awareness levels of self-help group members. In addition to these findings, causal loop diagrams were drawn to construct effective institutional mechanisms from the perspective of the capacities of the participants and the officials. This study examined the policy initiatives necessary for meeting the sanitation and waste management needs of peri-urban villages. Inferences regarding the institutionalization of linkages between self-help groups and local bodies were made based on the principles of sociocracy. Theoretical insight was provided regarding the different factors affecting this system, and how this model is flexible enough to accommodate the contextual needs of peri-urban villages.

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“…Following the investigation of cooperative mechanisms for the actors' mutual network, it is crucial to examine the sequential temporal changes of network structures among the actors in the environmental governance mechanism for solving environmental issues. Environmental governance is the application of environmental issues to governance principles and realization methods, including participation, partnership, democracy, openness, and mutual cooperation, appearing in various forms of networks, depending on the scope and involvement level of stakeholders, partner relationships, interaction intensity, and the linkage level between actors [4,16]. The structures and properties of networks enable us to understand the interactions among various actors and keywords of major policies involving actors in environmental governance [19].…”

Section: Theoretical Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is necessary for countries to systematically identify the nature of environmental issues and effectively cope with them to defend the interests of the state and secure sustainable development. The causal relationships of modern environmental issues are difficult to determine because of their complexity, circulation, and the interactions of pollutants [1][2][3][4]. Moreover, damage to ecosystems that stems from environmental pollution has far-reaching consequences that go well beyond short-term damage.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Network Analysis of Actors and Policy Keywords for Sustainable Environmental Governance: Focusing on Chinese Environmental Policy

2019

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How knowledge enables governance: The coproduction of environmental governance capacity

Cited by 77 publications

References 64 publications

Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Undergraduate Disabled Students as Knowledge Producers including Researchers: A Missed Topic in Academic Literature

Enabling Collaborative Action between Self-Help Groups and Rural Local Bodies through an Exploratory Workshop: The Case of a Peri-Urban Village in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India

Network Analysis of Actors and Policy Keywords for Sustainable Environmental Governance: Focusing on Chinese Environmental Policy

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