From Knowledge Co-production to Transdisciplinary Research: Lessons from the Quest to Produce Socially Robust Knowledge

Weichselgartner, Juergen; Truffer, Bernhard

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16477-9_5

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“…In the ''linear'' knowledge production model, academia's best contribution to problem resolution lies in the adequate transfer of knowledge (through communication, education, patenting, or publication) to other actors charged with the implementation of such knowledge in the form of products, procedures, regulations, or problem solutions. A nonlinear understanding of knowledge production, however, assumes that relevant knowledge can be produced by any kind of actor-academic or lay-who must be acknowledged for his or her specific perspective on a given problem (Weichselgartner and Truffer 2015). Different actors can be the origin of new ideas, and knowledge flows can go in all directions, from practitioners to researchers, or from basic science to policy, and so on.…”

Section: From Facts To Wisdommentioning

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The Role of Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction

Weichselgartner

Pigeon

2015

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Disaster risk reduction policy and practice require knowledge for informed decision making and coordinated action. Although the knowledge production and implementation processes are critical for disaster risk reduction, these issues are seldom systematically addressed in-depth in disaster studies and policy programs. While efforts and improvements have been made with regard to data and information, only limited resources are committed to improving knowledge management structures and integrating knowledge systems at different spatial levels. The recently adopted Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 addresses knowledge-related issues and provides the opportunity to highlight the critical role of knowledge in disaster risk reduction. This article presents insights into potential conceptualizations of knowledge that would advance disaster research and policy. We use cases from France to illustrate challenges of and pathways to disaster risk reduction. We suggest to further strengthen efforts that improve our understanding of the connections between disaster risk, knowledge, and learning. A better integration of multiple scales, different societal actors, various knowledge sources, and diverse disciplines into disaster risk research will increase its relevance for decision-makers in policy and practice. Well-targeted incentives and political backing will improve the coherence, coordination, and sharing of knowledge among various actors and arenas.

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Section: From Facts To Wisdommentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction

Weichselgartner

Pigeon

2015

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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“…By the fall of 2009 the UA and HDNR had agreed to collaborate to address the drought monitoring problem facing the tribe. Our collaboration was guided by the principles of transdisciplinary research: the problem we scoped was socially relevant and too complex to be easily addressed by either the HDNR or researchers alone, was based on collaborative work between interdisciplinary UA researchers and nonacademic partners in the HDNR, had as a central goal mutual learning, and ultimately sought the integration of different types of knowledge (Weichselgartner and Truffer 2015;Jahn et al 2012).…”

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Rain Gauges to Range Conditions: Collaborative Development of a Drought Information System to Support Local Decision-Making

Ferguson

Masayesva

Meadow

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Weather, Climate, and Society

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Drought monitoring and drought planning are complex endeavors. Measures of precipitation or streamflow provide little context for understanding how social and environmental systems impacted by drought are responding. Here the authors report on collaborative work with the Hopi Tribe-a Native American community in the U.S. Southwest-to develop a drought information system that is responsive to local needs. A strategy is presented for developing a system that is based on an assessment of how drought is experienced by Hopi citizens and resource managers, that can incorporate local observations of drought impacts as well as conventional indicators, and that brings together local expertise with conventional science-based observations. The system described here is meant to harness as much available information as possible to inform tribal resource managers, political leaders, and citizens about drought conditions and to also engage these local drought stakeholders in observing, thinking about, and helping to guide planning for drought.

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“…Tellis (1997) states that case studies are valuable where there are limitations of quantitative methods that provide holistic, controversial explanations of real-world issues. Weichselgartner and Truffer (2015) point out the value of case studies using transdisciplinary approaches to obtain an integrated understanding of complex problems by gathering a diversity of perspectives. The four case studies were chosen to demonstrate the divergence of OFS from binary aquaculture and fisheries systems and their unique systems evolution and future potentials.…”

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Ocean Food Systems and Hybrid Seafood Production: Transdisciplinary Case Studies of Cod, Eels, Salmon, and Lobster

Costa‐Pierce

2023

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Capture fisheries and aquaculture are researched, planned, and managed throughout the world as if they are independent entities ignoring their complex and evolving interdependencies. Global attention on “blue foods” as an important part of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is focused on the restoration of capture fisheries and the sustainable expansion of aquaculture. Such a binary approach does not fit the current realities, opportunities, and innovations in ocean food systems (OFS), and does not integrate enough of the necessary transdisciplinary knowledge across professions. Integration of knowledge across professions is needed as modern ocean foods enter common marketplaces so interventions to increase sustainability must incorporate data on rural economic development, producers and their mixed ocean/land-based livelihoods and seasonal employment patterns, tourism, data on local to regional and global trade, and consumer behaviors. Four case studies detail the status and evolution of OFS typologies of American and spiny lobsters as fed fisheries, salmon as aquaculture-enhanced fisheries, and the capture-based aquacultures for cod and for eels. Objectives of this review were to examine for four OFS cases if there was adequate evidence to show that they were as productive, economically attractive, and as socially beneficial OFS that rival those of binary aquaculture or fisheries systems alone; and did they have significant potential to accelerate innovations as much as those sectors. For the four cases reviewed, productive, social and ecologically valuable, rapidly evolving OFS existed with demonstrable innovation trajectories. In the early part of this century it was estimated that capture-based aquaculture (CBA) accounted for about 20% of the total quantity of food fish production worth US$1.7 billion. Review of just four case studies having a limited number of participating countries found that annual value of the OFS exceeded US$4 billion: the value of eels as a capture-based aquaculture (CBA) was estimated US$2.3 billion for just two countries; for salmon as an aquaculture-enhanced fishery at $1.7 billion for only one state of the USA; and for lobsters as fed fisheries and a CBA, $825 million for the USA and Vietnam. However, OFS are disruptive as they require radically changed science, education, management, and development policies as current binary fisheries and aquaculture management approaches do not fit their current realities, or opportunities, or accelerate innovations, plus poorly integrate knowledge across professions. This was demonstrated by the example of dynamic management/regulatory situation for cod wild fisheries and the growing CBA for cod in Norway. The coming decades of accelerated climate and social changes will cause concomitant changes to ocean foods markets from local to global, and rural ocean foods livelihoods. These two systemic changes will drive the evolution and development of a greater diversity of OFS that will require much more attention of policy-makers and investors.

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From Knowledge Co-production to Transdisciplinary Research: Lessons from the Quest to Produce Socially Robust Knowledge

Cited by 12 publications

References 45 publications

The Role of Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction

The Role of Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction

Rain Gauges to Range Conditions: Collaborative Development of a Drought Information System to Support Local Decision-Making

Ocean Food Systems and Hybrid Seafood Production: Transdisciplinary Case Studies of Cod, Eels, Salmon, and Lobster

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