Usable environmental knowledge from the perspective of decision-making: the logics of consequentiality, appropriateness, and meaningfulness

Oceans of Conflict: Pathways to an Ocean Sustainability PACT

“…We see four key arguments and relevance of this type of research collaboration for ocean sustainability: (1) there is a status quo that is unsustainable and needs to be changed; (2) a (radical) pluralism approach ensures a wide range of perspectives, framings, and values from all relevant disciplines and actor groups related to the problem; (3) a processual orientation will create enabling spaces that allow for differences of view over divergent long-term sustainability goals and transformative pathways; and (4) coproduction of knowledge-action between researchers and non-academic stakeholders can work to produce 'actionable' knowledge in response to sustainability challenges. Here, actionability is conceived as knowledge that is salient, having broad legitimacy and aligned with policymakers' triad logics of useful knowledge advanced by Dewulf et al (2020) -for example, consequentiality, appropriateness and meaningfulness.…”

Spatial Conservation Prioritisation as Part of a General Land Use Planning Process 

“…6). Furthermore, it was evident that a well-managed stakeholder engagement in the process improved the acceptance of both the process and the nal results (Pierce et al 2005), and increased the overall relevance of ecological questions in the land-use decision-making (Dewulf et al 2020).…”

Diffusing Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning in the EU

“…While first and second order learning comprises the adoption and adjustment policy instruments to solve a given and undisputed issue, third order change fundamentally alters norms, or the prevalent policy paradigm. Paradigm changes concern the "framework of ideas and standards that specifies not only the goals of policy and the kind of instruments that can be used to attain them, but also the very nature of the problems they are meant to be addressing" [56] (p. 279). Accordingly, norm based policy transfer often relates to formal and informal rules and procedures that guide decision-making processes rather than to specific policy instruments [57].…”

“…A policy paradigm is "a cognitive model shared by a particular community of actors, and which facilitates problem solving" [65] (p. 38). These shared beliefs "structure how problems are understood and which instruments are adequate to solve them [56] (p. 278). Paradigms materialise, for example, in the selection of performance indicators or in institutional arrangements, such as in the configuration of government departments [66] (p. 271).…”