Improving knowledge exchange among scientists and decision-makers to facilitate the adaptive governance of marine resources: A review of knowledge and research needs

Cvitanovic, Chris; Hobday, Alistair J.; Kerkhoff, Lorrae van; Wilson, Shaun K.; Dobbs, Kirstin; Marshall, Nadine

doi:10.31230/osf.io/kfvx9

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“…Interaction between knowledge and action can take place in multiple forms, ranging from knowledge coproduction between scientists and decision-makers, to boundary organizations, which are specifically mandated to act as independent intermediaries between science and policy (25,26). This initiative was not designed to develop into a coproduction initiative from the onset, but it emerged as such.…”

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“…Previous work on knowledge exchange between scientists and decision-makers (26) suggest that SeaBOS is best described as a coproduction initiative between science and business, in which companies can develop their agency (27), to influence change across subsystems, thereby contributing to amplifying new norms of ocean stewardship. Outcomes from the two dialogues suggest that keystone actors have an interest in operating as global norm entrepreneurs (28), setting new agendas, standards, and ways of operating, which can potentially cascade through the seafood production system and also influence other actors shaping the ocean.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A substantial literature has developed around how science interacts with policy (26,47), but relatively little is known about interactions between science and business. Further work should explore both similarities and differences between these two settings.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Emergence of a global science–business initiative for ocean stewardship

Österblom

Jouffray

Folke

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The ocean represents a fundamental source of micronutrients and protein for a growing world population. Seafood is a highly traded and sought after commodity on international markets, and is critically dependent on healthy marine ecosystems. A global trend of wild stocks being overfished and in decline, as well as multiple sustainability challenges associated with a rapid growth of aquaculture, represent key concerns in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Existing efforts aimed to improve the sustainability of seafood production have generated important progress, primarily at the local and national levels, but have yet to effectively address the global challenges associated with the ocean. This study highlights the importance of transnational corporations in enabling transformative change, and thereby contributes to advancing the limited understanding of large-scale private actors within the sustainability science literature. We describe how we engaged with large seafood producers to coproduce a global science-business initiative for ocean stewardship. We suggest that this initiative is improving the prospects for transformative change by providing novel links between science and business, between wild-capture fisheries and aquaculture, and across geographical space. We argue that scientists can play an important role in facilitating change by connecting knowledge to action among global actors, while recognizing risks associated with such engagement. The methods developed through this case study contribute to identifying key competences in sustainability science and hold promises for other sectors as well.coproduction | governance | learning | resilience | transformation S ustainability science is becoming a mainstream scientific approach for understanding and addressing the global and interconnected challenges currently facing humanity (1, 2). A key component of sustainability science is to collaborate with actors outside of academia to codesign and codevelop an understanding of the challenges and their corresponding solutions (2, 3). Local and regional examples illustrate how sustainability scientists have engaged with society as change agents (4, 5) and the challenges associated with such engagement (3,4,6,7). In this context, however, there has been limited attention devoted to large-scale private actors (8). Existing studies primarily focus on how major brands invest in-and benefit from-sustainability initiatives (9), or analyze how and when voluntary commitments to sustainability may influence corporate behavior (10, 11). Little is known about how scientists can engage with corporations and how knowledge can be transferred from science to action by the private sector.In the following, we present our experience from a coproduction process with large transnational seafood corporations, aimed at stimulating transformative change in the seafood industry, and the subsequent emergence of a global initiative for ocean stewardship. Here, ocean stewardship is viewed as an adaptive and lear...

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Emergence of a global science–business initiative for ocean stewardship

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Jouffray

Folke

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…More generally, there is an implicit assumption of the quality of peer-review in the growing trend toward (comprehensive) systematic reviews, which have been promoted as an antidote to individual bias [Bilotta et al, 2014;Cvitanovic et al, 2015;Spruijt et al, 2014]. This trend runs counter to the past expectation that critical reviews would provide filtering of the available material based on the expert judgment of the author(s) [Nilsen, 2015].…”

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Perspectives from a water research institute on Knowledge Management for Sustainable Water Management

Hering

Nunnenmacher

Waldow

2018

Handbook of Knowledge Management for Sustainable Water Systems

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A sizeable, and sometimes overwhelming, array of knowledge is available and relevant to Sustainable Water Management (SWM). This knowledge derives not only from the natural, social and engineering sciences but also from practical experiences in water management, which is defined broadly to include all forms of water use as well as the protection of water resources and reduction of risk from water-related hazards. As a publically-funded water research institute, Eawag (the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) faces the challenges of integrating and synthesizing available knowledge, creating new knowledge through research projects and making knowledge available in an accessible form to support engineering practice, water resources management and related policy-making. This chapter examines these challenges from an organizational perspective, discussing measures taken within Eawag to meet them and identifying remaining gaps and possible ways to address them.

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“…Decision makers are therefore increasingly faced with unmanageable volumes of rapidly evolving evidence, mainly processed for exchange between experts. As an unfortunate result, they seem to have largely given up reading the primary scientific literature (Cvitanovic et al 2015). Consideration of scientific findings in societal decision making, therefore, depends more than ever on better science communicationcondensed and widely disseminated briefs, press releases, and reviews that summarize scientific findings and make them more accessible to nonexperts.…”

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