Knowledge co-production and researcher roles in transdisciplinary environmental management projects
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, Volume 30, issue 2, pp. 393-405
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Calls for transformative change and participatory modes of knowledge production demand researchers to assume new roles. This paper synthesizes the literature on knowledge co-production and researcher roles to explore challenges for researchers involved in transdisciplinary environmental management projects. Our research methods combine a scoping review and reflections on personal experiences with three transdisciplinary projects. To conceptualize researcher roles in transdisciplinary knowledge co-production, we distinguish between three spaces: knowledge, formal policy, and stakeholder. Knowledge co-production requires collaboration between actors from different spaces and integration of diverse knowledge sources and types. Depending on whether researchers adopt knowledge-oriented, change-oriented or intermediating roles, they will experience different challenges. When researchers combine knowledge development with change-oriented and/or intermediating roles, they encounter new challenges, such as, maintaining independence or objectivity. To assist researchers in transdisciplinary projects, we conclude with a checklist of four elements to reflect upon: orientation, norms and values, expectations and resources.Description
Funding Information: Jennifer Henze, Barbara Schröter and Christian Albert acknowledge support from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) through a grant for the PlanSmart research group (funding code: 01UU1601A and B). The paper contributes to the Global Land Project (GLP) science plan regarding Land Governance theme, and to The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS)'s mission to advance knowledge for supporting transitions toward sustainable stewardship of social‐ecological systems. Laura Verbrugge, V.J.C.A., Robert‐Jan den Haan and Jan Fliervoet acknowledge support from NWO‐TTW and the Ministry of Economic Affairs which provided funding for the research program RiverCare under grant number P12‐14. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Sustainable Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Kruijf, J V D, Verbrugge, L, Schröter, B, den Haan, R J, Cortes Arevalo, J, Fliervoet, J, Henze, J & Albert, C 2022, 'Knowledge co-production and researcher roles in transdisciplinary environmental management projects', SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 393-405. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2281