Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change

Cornell, Sarah; Berkhout, Frans; Tuinstra, W.; Tàbara, J. David; Jäger, Jill; Chabay, Ilan; Wit, Bert de; Langlais, Richard; Mills, David; Moll, Peter; Otto, Ilona M.; Petersen, Arthur C.; Pohl, Christian; Kerkhoff, Lorrae van

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.008

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“…On the one hand, reflexivity requires that governance be opened to multiple perspectives and sources of information (see also Cornell et al 2013). There is clear resonance here with the epistemic argument for democracy discussed in the previous section, with the accent on the diversity of perspectives that a pluralist democracy in particular enables.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…The dual importance of participatory and expert deliberation raises difficult questions about how to foster exchange of knowledge between scientists and the public, how to weigh competing claims between these communities, and whether and how to construct a suitable division of epistemic labor (Cornell et al 2013). We believe deliberative thinking is well placed to handle the tension between participation and expertise, in the following ways.…”

Section: Deliberative Reconciliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Citizens would play a more active role in helping to pose questions for science to study, prioritizing problems for inquiry, making sense of what scientific findings imply, reconciling lay concerns with the findings of science, and reasoning through the implications for policy. The hope is that this kind of engaged dialogue would enable participants to get beyond ideological filters and engage in more reflexive scrutiny of established practices (Cornell et al 2013). …”

Section: Deliberative Reconciliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Transformations are understood to encompass fundamental modifications in a set of institutions, including changes in property regimes (O'Brien 2012;Ostrom 2009;Ostrom, 2009), access to education and political systems (e.g. by women; see Elliot 2012), or the development of open knowledge systems to support social learning Cornell et al 2013). In addition, research focusing on transformation and sustainability is advancing in the making of a richer representation of agency, mainly using more complex system perspectives in modelling as well as assessment tools and methods.…”

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Defining transformative climate science to address high-end climate change

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High-end climate change requires transformative solutions, as conventional strategies and solutions will not be enough if major disruptions in social-ecological systems are to be avoided. However, conventional climate assessment approaches and methods show many limitations if they are to provide robust knowledge and support to the implementation of such solutions in practice. To this end, we define transformative climate science as the open-ended process of producing, structuring, and applying solutionsoriented knowledge to fast-link integrated adaptation and mitigation strategies to sustainable development. In particular, based on our experiences within regional cases in Central Asia, Europe, Iberia, Scotland, and Hungary, we have selected 12 dimensions that scientists and practitioners can use as a checklist to design transformative-oriented climate assessments. While it is possible to talk both about transformative adaptation and transformative mitigation, in this paper, we make the case that societal transformation does not depend on mitigation or adaptation policies and actions, mostly because they are related to sustainability innovations, which are endogenous developments derived from deliberate social learning

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“…In transdisciplinary research contexts involving actors outside of academia, these challenges are amplified. Sufficient time to build trust and personal relationships is essential (Höchtl et al 2006;Harris and Lyon 2013;Podestá et al 2013) and institutional changes in the knowledge-production process may be required (Cornell et al 2013).…”

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Transdisciplinarity in practice: aims, collaboration and integration in a Swedish research programme

Lindahl

Westholm

2014

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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This article discusses the practice of crossdisciplinarity in the context of future-oriented sustainability studies. Much research into crossdisciplinarity has concentrated on programmatic and epistemological questions. In this study, we focus on research practice and efforts to realize transdisciplinary aims across a research programme. We use the Swedish Future Forests programme as a case study and explore its aims, forms of collaboration and level of conceptual integration. The study demonstrates that efficient integration requires organizational settings able to support the development of a common conceptual framework. To achieve this, the aims and forms of collaboration and the means of integration ought to be consistent. Far-reaching integration and shortterm instrumental objectives may be difficult to combine because integration requires intellectual space, specific boundary settings and time. Short-term instrumental objectives may also hamper open and reflexive discussion of alternative pathways to sustainability and of how participating actors shape the research process. These insights may help researchers and participating actors to design research programmes that enable a realization of their transdisciplinary ambitions.

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Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change

Cited by 426 publications

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Deliberation as a catalyst for reflexive environmental governance

Deliberation as a catalyst for reflexive environmental governance

Defining transformative climate science to address high-end climate change

Transdisciplinarity in practice: aims, collaboration and integration in a Swedish research programme

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