Building trust, building futures: Knowledge co-production as relationship, design, and process in transdisciplinary science

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Title: Building trust, building futures: Knowledge co-production as relationship, design, and process in transdisciplinary science
Authors: Andrew “Anaru” Kliskey, Paula Williams, E. Jamie Trammell, Daniel Cronan, David Griffith, Lilian Alessa, Richard Lammers, Mario E. de Haro-Martí, Julia Oxarango-Ingram
Source: Frontiers in Environmental Science, Vol 11 (2023)
Publisher Information: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023.
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: LCC:Environmental sciences
Subject Terms: engagement design, engagement process, food-energy-water systems, impact model, knowledge coproduction, representation model, Environmental sciences, GE1-350
More Details: Understanding and modeling the trajectories of change in broad level interactions in food-energy-water systems is incomplete when it is undertaken by researchers in isolation from those who live and work in the systems. For models and outcomes to have validity they need to be subjected to sustained development and iteration with stakeholders. This requires a paradigm shift in our thinking of stakeholder engagement from viewing such engagement as an isolated activity or part of the data collection methods to thinking of engagement as a process of knowledge generation. That process hinges on building relationships and building trust, and also sustaining these as long-term relationships through multiple elements of research design and execution. Using the case-study of a mid-size river basin we demonstrate a co-production of knowledge process for food-energy-water systems. The findings highlight the multiple and different ways in which knowledge co-production can be transacted in food-energy-water systems while also generating solutions to the use and re-use of water, energy, and nutrients at the landscape level.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 2296-665X
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1007105/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-665X
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1007105
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/a822266c737e45c3839fe50450d304f8
Accession Number: edsdoj.822266c737e45c3839fe50450d304f8
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:2296665X
DOI:10.3389/fenvs.2023.1007105
Published in:Frontiers in Environmental Science
Language:English