Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide

Plummer, Ryan; Blythe, Jessica; Gurney, Georgina G.; Witkowski, Samantha; Armitage, Derek

doi:10.1007/s11625-021-01074-y

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“…It is imperative to be cognisant of the multiple perspectives that may be underpinned by unique ways of knowing and manifest knowledge systems (Plummer et al 2022;Steelman et al 2021) and that actors must accommodate, reconcile and/or integrate different knowledges (Norström et al 2020). This poses challenges as each can be viewed as legitimate, valid and credible.…”

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“…perceptions) and quantitative (e.g. number of academic publications) information, which may be tracked for different purposes (Garlick & Langworthy 2008;Plummer et al 2022). In line with the two-fold purpose of monitoring above, KPIs for HEI-community partnerships come from existing scholarship as well as the specific context of a given partnership.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Second, impacts need to be measured from the perspective of these different audiences (Srinivas et al 2015). A guide to assessing performance and evaluating the impacts of transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability by Plummer et al (2022) outlines key steps in the evaluation process and provides a navigational pathway forward through the process. While the techniques to carry out effectiveness and impact evaluation will be unique to each HEI-community partnership, the suggested framework can assist with overcoming challenges, offer mechanisms to document evidence of achievements and ultimately provide a foundation for transformative change.…”

Section: Component 3: Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In seeking to draw upon current experience, the President encouraged the authors to catalyse community connections across the institution as well as determine how to gauge the success of formal community partnerships. The authors thus embarked on a multi-year program of inquiry into the performance of higher education institutioncommunity partnerships (Plummer et al 2021a), including measuring the performance of sustainability science initiatives (Plummer et al 2022) and evaluating transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability (Plummer et al 2021b). While sustainability science informed some of the empirical investigations, the program of inquiry transcended disciplinary, geographic and institutional contexts.…”

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Appraising HEI-community Partnerships: Assessing Performance, Monitoring Progress, and Evaluating Impacts

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Momentum of the creation of partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and communities is strong. As their significance intensifies, the question of how to judge their value is garnering increasing attention. In this perspective article, we develop a framework for comprehensively appraising HEI-community partnerships. Constituent parts of the framework are unpacked, and application of the framework is then discussed. The appraisal framework provides a mechanism to document evidence of worth, and most importantly contributes to the continuous improvement and learning imperative of HEI-community partnerships.

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“…Addressing the urgent environmental challenges of biodiversity erosion, natural resource depletion, and climate change requires new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge, across disciplines and sectors. Transdisciplinary and sustainability scholars propose an inclusive and interactive approach, knowledge coproduction, to integrate academic and nonacademic actors’ knowledge to address problem‐oriented decision making (Plummer et al., 2022; Vinke‐de‐Kruijf et al., 2022). Knowledge coproduction is promoted by international science‐policy processes, such as the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and Future Earth; networks such as the Indigenous Peoples' Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative (IPCCA) (https://ipcca.info); and national to local initiatives and actors (Brondízio et al., 2021; Hill et al., 2020; McElwee et al., 2020).…”

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Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people

Vallet,

Locatelli,

Valdivia‐Díaz

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Conservation Biology

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Sustainability science needs new approaches to produce, share, and use knowledge because there are major barriers to translating research into policy and practice. Multiple actors hold relevant knowledge for sustainability including indigenous and local people who have developed over generations knowledge, methods, and practices that biodiversity and ecosystem assessments need to capture. Despite efforts to mainstream knowledge coproduction, less than 3% of the literature on nature's contributions to people (NCP) integrates indigenous and local knowledge (ILK). Approaches and tools to better integrate scientific and ILK knowledge systems in NCP assessments are urgently needed. To fill this gap, we conducted interviews with ILK experts from Abancay and Tamburco, Peru, and convened focus groups and workshops during which participatory mapping, a serious game, a Bayesian belief network based on ILK were introduced. We inventoried 60 medicinal plants used to treat different illnesses, and analyzed the spatial distribution of the 7 plants that contribute the most to a good quality of life, and delineated their nonmedicinal uses. Based on the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services conceptual framework, we defined dimensions of a good quality of life according to indigenous and local worldviews. Medicinal plants contributed strongly to health and household security, among other contributions. Climate change and overexploitation were the main perceived threats to medicinal plants, despite the existence of formal and customary institutions to regulate trade. Our approach was flexible enough to integrate diverse forms of knowledge, as well as qualitative and quantitative information from, for example, the Bayesian belief network.

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An Evolving Understanding of Sense of Place in Social-Ecological Systems Research and the Barriers and Enablers to its Measurement

Duggan,

Cvitanovic,

van Putten

2023

Environmental Management

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Social-ecological systems (SES) are changing more in the Anthropocene than ever before. With this also comes a change in Sense of Place (SoP), that is, the emotional bond that a person (or group of people) has with a place. This impacts how individuals and groups interact with a place (i.e., their behaviours) and respond to disturbance or change (i.e., their adaptive capacity). To understand how SoP is changing across space and time and to be able to compare this across social-ecological contexts, we must first take stock of how SoP is conceptualised so as to understand how to capture and measure the phenomena in a meaningful way (e.g., to inform policy). Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with leading SoP researchers (n = 17 from 8 countries) this paper aims to identify: (1) the current breadth of theoretical conceptualisations for SoP; (2) the methodologies that have been used to measure SoP in different contexts and settings; and (3) the barriers and (4) enablers to the use of different methodologies. Results show that there has been a change in how SoP has been conceptualised over time, whereby it was traditionally considered as something singular and limited, towards something much more dynamic. Results also show that diverse methods (both quantitative and qualitative) have been used to measure SoP, but the choice of method is often a result of resource constraints that limit research design. These findings suggest that broader collaboration among stakeholders and increased interdisciplinarity would undoubtedly lead to improved outcomes in our understanding of SoP, specifically how it is changing in response to anthropogenic pressures, and how the results can be integrated into policy and practice to support environment conservation and management. It is hoped these findings can help establish a community of practice around how we conceptualise SoP, and hence understand it, to create space for methodological integration and shared learnings as a field.

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Transdisciplinary partnerships for sustainability: an evaluation guide

Cited by 14 publications

References 96 publications

Appraising HEI-community Partnerships: Assessing Performance, Monitoring Progress, and Evaluating Impacts

Appraising HEI-community Partnerships: Assessing Performance, Monitoring Progress, and Evaluating Impacts

Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people

An Evolving Understanding of Sense of Place in Social-Ecological Systems Research and the Barriers and Enablers to its Measurement

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