Negotiating credibility and legitimacy in the shadow of an authoritative data source

Cravens, Amanda E.; Ardoin, Nicole M.

doi:10.5751/es-08849-210430

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“…Similar to our stakeholder process, collaborative governance involves constructively engaging people in decision-making across the boundaries of public agencies, levels of government, and the public, private, and civic spheres [50]. Research on perceptions of trust and credibility demonstrate that science translates into environmental decision-making when it is perceived to be salient, credible, and legitimate [51]. Ultimately, the CBPR approach undertaken to develop the DWT as an environmental justice tool represents an important step toward actually achieving the Human Right to Water.…”

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The Drinking Water Tool: A Community-Driven Data Visualization Tool for Policy Implementation

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The Drinking Water Tool (DWT) is a community-driven online tool that provides diverse users with information about drinking water sources and threats to drinking water quality and access due to drought. Development of the DWT was guided by the Community Water Center (CWC) as part of the Water Equity Science Shop (WESS), a research partnership integrating elements of community-based participatory research and the European Science Shop model. The WESS engages in scientific projects that inform policy change, advance water justice, and reduce cumulative exposure and disproportionate health burdens among impacted communities in California. WESS researchers conducted qualitative analysis of 15 stakeholder interviews regarding the DWT, including iterative feedback and the stakeholder consultation process as well as stakeholder perceptions of the tool’s impact on California water policy, organizing, and research. Results indicate that the DWT and the stakeholder engagement process which developed it were effective in influencing policy priorities and in promoting interagency coordination at multiple levels to address water equity challenges and their disproportionate burdens, particularly among rural and low socioeconomic status areas and communities of color.

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The Drinking Water Tool: A Community-Driven Data Visualization Tool for Policy Implementation

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“…Several coauthors on this paper have experience with drought planning. One point they made consistently was that the planning process itself is important; it can serve dual decision making and social learning functions (Cravens & Ardoin, 2016;Cundill et al, 2010). Generating a long list of impacts might be valuable as part of the process of maintaining communication, soliciting input, and educating stakeholders about the concerns of other community members.…”

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Planning for ecological drought: Integrating ecosystem services and vulnerability assessment

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As research recognizes the importance of ecological impacts of drought to natural and human communities, drought planning processes need to better incorporate ecological impacts. Drought planning currently recognizes the vulnerability of some ecological impacts from drought (e.g., loss of instream flow affecting fish populations). However, planning often does not identify all the ecological aspects in a landscape that stakeholders value, nor does it examine the extent to which those aspects are vulnerable to drought. One approach for identifying ecological aspects is ecosystem services (ES)-that is, the benefits humans receive from nature. To incorporate ecological impacts into drought planning in the Upper Missouri Headwaters (UMH) region (Montana, USA), we combined ES elicitation using the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services and a vulnerability assessment using semi-structured interviews. We juxtaposed results from the interviews and the ES elicitation to assess which ES might be vulnerable to drought and which impacts from interviews were associated with losses of ES. While both methods suggested common drought vulnerabilities, each method also suggested drought vulnerabilities not reported using the other method. The ES elicitation produced more detail about services present in the UMH ecosystem today while interviews resulted in more discussion about ecological transformation from future droughts. Results suggest that some combination of open-ended vulnerability assessment methods and ES elicitation using a structured framework can result in greater understanding of ecological drought vulnerability in a given region.

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“…To ensure that the information is considered trustworthy, researchers need to be transparent about data collection, interpretation and Cravens and Ardoin (2016) concluded that trust in scientific information is not so much a characteristic of the information itself or of the way it has been generated, but rather the outcome of a process of discussion and social learning in which scientists and practitioners take part. To improve the level of trust in spatial information, actors in a workshop can be asked whether they recognize the information on a map being consistent with their own experience.…”

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Navigating the space between landscape science and collective action for sustainability: identifying key factors in information processing

Opdam

2020

Landscape Ecol

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Context Transitions to more sustainable landscapes require that actors change their thinking about using the landscape and act collectively to implement a shared view on the future. If landscape ecologists want their knowledge to contribute to such transitions, the information they provide need to stimulate collective decisions and action. Objective To identify key factors that determine how scientific information about landscape functioning and benefits influences actors in organizing collective action for landscape sustainability. Method I combine a theory of knowledge management with a theory of behavioural change to construct a framework of 4 phases of interpretation and implementation of landscape information. Results The 4 phases are: (1) actors accept the information as significant, (2) actors assess the saliency of the information for their case, (3) the information stimulates social network building and collective action, and (4) the information enforces the capacity to organize collaborative change. The extent to which these phases effectively develop in the interaction between scientists and practitioners depends on characteristics of the information, but to a great deal also on the process of interaction and the roles scientist play. I discuss how landscape ecologists can intervene in these phases, by providing the right information and by facilitating an interactive process of knowledge generation. Conclusions Whether landscape information is eventually used in organizing the landscape change depends on characteristics of the information and the governance process in which the information is brought in. Knowledge from social sciences is indispensable for landscape ecology with impact.

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Negotiating credibility and legitimacy in the shadow of an authoritative data source

Cited by 15 publications

References 50 publications

The Drinking Water Tool: A Community-Driven Data Visualization Tool for Policy Implementation

The Drinking Water Tool: A Community-Driven Data Visualization Tool for Policy Implementation

Planning for ecological drought: Integrating ecosystem services and vulnerability assessment

Navigating the space between landscape science and collective action for sustainability: identifying key factors in information processing

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