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This book addresses the gap in the existing literature on the governance of transdisciplinary research partnerships in transformational sustainability research by exploring the governance of knowledge co-production in coupled socio-ecological system dynamics. Multiple social and ecological crises raise new cross-sectoral research questions that call for an evolution in contemporary science in the direction of society-wide knowledge co-production on sustainability transformations of interdependent social and ecological systems. This book proposes a new approach to this based on enabling capacities for collaboration among scientific researchers and societal actors with diverse values, perspectives, and research interests. By drawing upon the thriving literature on the conditions for community and multistakeholder-driven collective action, the analysis sheds new light on the governance arrangements for organizing so-called transdisciplinary research partnerships for sustainability. This book identifies robust conditions that lead to effective collaborative research with societal actors and digs deeper into capacity building for partnership research through fostering social learning on sustainability values among research partners and organizing training and knowledge exchange at institutions of higher education. The book proposes solutions for addressing collective action challenges in transdisciplinary partnerships in an accessible and broadly interdisciplinary manner to a large audience of sustainability scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sustainable development, social ecological transitions, and science policy, while also being a useful resource for engineers, QSE managers, and policymakers.

Confronted with the complex environmental crises of the Anthropocene, scientists have moved towards an interdisciplinary approach to address challenges that are both social and ecological. Several arenas are now calling for co-production of new transdisciplinary knowledge by combining Indigenous knowledge and science. This book revisits epistemological debates on the notion of co-production and assesses the relevant methods, principles and values that enable communities to co-produce. It explores the factors that determine how indigenous-scientific knowledge can be rooted in equity, mutual respect and shared benefits. Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production includes several collective papers co-authored by Indigenous experts and scientists, with case studies involving Indigenous communities from the Arctic, Pacific islands, the Amazon, the Sahel and high altitude areas. Offering guidance to indigenous peoples, scientists, decision-makers and NGOs, this book moves towards a decolonised co-production of knowledge that unites indigenous knowledge and science to address global environmental crises.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Transdisciplinary research partnerships for environmental justice and citizenship within planetary boundaries -- 1.1 Organizing research on integrated social and ecological systems -- 1.2 The promises of transdisciplinary sustainability research -- 1.3 Addressing governance challenges in partnerships between scientific researchers and societal actors -- 2 Overcoming collective action failures in knowledge co-production practices -- 2.1 Governance failures in transdisciplinary research -- 2.2 Theoretical building blocks from the multi-level approach to governing scientific research commons -- 2.3 Promoting synergies among various styles of transdisciplinary research practice -- 3 Generating actionable knowledge outputs through collaborative research co-design -- 3.1 Usable knowledge production on sustainability transformations -- 3.2 Collaborative research co-design across technological, socioeconomic, and cultural levers of sustainability transformations -- 3.3 A pragmatist constructivist approach to knowledge co-production -- 4 Social learning among actors with incommensurable value perspectives on sustainability transformations -- 4.1 Building common perspectives for research collaboration in highly diverse societal value settings -- 4.2 Amartya Sen's deliberative approach to social choice with incommensurable societal values -- 4.3 Illustrating the various types of social learning in transdisciplinary research practices -- 4.4 Fostering critical engagement across differences -- 5 Developing integrated boundary-crossing organizational networks -- 5.1 From disciplinary divisions and departments to flexible network organizations.

"This book addresses the gap in the existing literature on the governance of transdisciplinary research partnerships in transformational sustainability research by exploring the governance of knowledge co-production on socio-ecological system dynamics. Multiple social and ecological crises raise new cross-sectoral research questions that call for an evolution in contemporary science in the direction of society-wide knowledge co-production on sustainability transformations of interdependent social and ecological systems. This book proposes a new approach to this, based on enabling capacities for collaboration among scientific researchers and societal actors with diverse values, perspectives and research interests. By drawing upon the thriving literature on the conditions for community and multi-stakeholder-driven collective action, the analysis sheds new light on the governance arrangements for organizing so-called transdisciplinary research partnerships for sustainability. The book identifies robust combinations of conditions that lead to effective collaborative research with societal actors and digs deeper into capacity building for partnership research through fostering social learning on sustainability values among research partners and organizing training and knowledge exchange at institutions of higher education. The book proposes solutions for addressing collective action challenges in transdisciplinary partnerships in an accessible and broadly interdisciplinary manner to a large audience of sustainability scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sustainable development, social ecological transition, and science policy, whilst also being a useful resource for engineers, QSE managers and policy makers"--

Introduction: Africa's urban challenge / Sylvia Croese -- The formal-informal interface through the lens of urban food systems : the Soweto Food Market in Lusaka, Zambia / Gilbert Siame, Douty Chibamba, Progress H. Nyanga, Brenda Mwalukanga, Beverly Musonda Mushili, Wiza Kabaghe, Garikai Membele, Wilma S. Nchito, Peter Mulambia & Dorothy Ndhlovu -- Formal-informal interface : comparative analysis between three Egyptian cities / Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker -- Dialogues on informality : land sharing as a sustainable approach to tenure security in Kiandutu informal settlement in Thika town, Kenya / Peter Ngau and Philip Olale -- Urban Infrastructure and Inequality : lessons from Cairo and Johannesburg / Deena Khalil and Margot Rubin -- Weathering the storm : reflections on a community-based approach to flood-risk management in Kumasi, Ghana / Divine Ahadzie, Irene-Nora Dinye and Rudith Sylvana King -- Housing for whom? Rebuilding Angola's cities after conflict and who gets left behind / Allan Cain -- Conclusion: Towards a research agenda for knowledge coproduction in urban Africa / Sylvia Croese.

Introduction: Africa's urban challenge / Sylvia Croese -- The formal-informal interface through the lens of urban food systems : the Soweto Food Market in Lusaka, Zambia / Gilbert Siame, Douty Chibamba, Progress H. Nyanga, Brenda Mwalukanga, Beverly Musonda Mushili, Wiza Kabaghe, Garikai Membele, Wilma S. Nchito, Peter Mulambia & Dorothy Ndhlovu -- Formal-informal interface : comparative analysis between three Egyptian cities / Omar Nagati and Beth Stryker -- Dialogues on informality : land sharing as a sustainable approach to tenure security in Kiandutu informal settlement in Thika town, Kenya / Peter Ngau and Philip Olale -- Urban Infrastructure and Inequality : lessons from Cairo and Johannesburg / Deena Khalil and Margot Rubin -- Weathering the storm : reflections on a community-based approach to flood-risk management in Kumasi, Ghana / Divine Ahadzie, Irene-Nora Dinye and Rudith Sylvana King -- Housing for whom? Rebuilding Angola's cities after conflict and who gets left behind / Allan Cain -- Conclusion: Towards a research agenda for knowledge coproduction in urban Africa / Sylvia Croese.

This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa's urban population. Africa's urban age is underway. With the world's fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the nature of demands for infrastructure, escalating environmental hazards, and ever-expanding informal settlements. Drawing on the work of the African Urban Research Initiative, this book brings together contributions from local researchers investigating key themes and challenges within their own contexts. An important example of urban knowledge coproduction, the book demonstrates the regional diversity that can be seen as the main feature of African urbanism, with even well-accepted concepts such as informality manifesting in markedly different ways from place to place. Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an important resource for researchers across development studies, African studies, and urban studies.

"This book demonstrates how active and meaningful collaboration between researchers and local stakeholders and indigenous communities can lead to the co-production of knowledge and the empowerment of communities. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this interdisciplinary volume looks at local and indigenous relations to the landscape, showing how applied scholarship and collaborative research can work to empower indigenous and descendant communities. With cases ranging across Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pohnpei, Guam, and Easter Island, this book demonstrates the many ways in which co-production of knowledge is reconnecting local and indigenous relations to the landscape, and diversifying the philosophy of human-land relations. In so doing, the book is enriching the knowledge of landscape, and changing the landscape of knowledge. This important contribution to our understanding of knowledge production will be of interest to readers across Anthropology, Archaeology, Development, Geography, Heritage Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Policy Studies"--

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratorie

Front Cover -- Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on the editors -- Notes on contributors -- One Introduction: from unilocal to comparative transdisciplinary urban co-production of knowledge -- Co-production as a research approach -- Global challenges and the urban -- Mistra Urban Futures: a centre for transdisciplinary co-produced research on urban futures -- From local to comparative research -- Overview of the book's contents -- Notes -- References

"At the current time, many issues and problems within sustainable urban development are managed within traditional disciplinary and organizational structures. However, problems such as, climate change, resource constraints, poverty and social tensions all exceed current compartmentalization of policy-making, administration and knowledge production. This book provides a better understanding of how researchers and practitioners together can co-produce knowledge to better contribute to solving the complex challenges of reaching sustainable urban futures. It is written for academic and professional audiences working with urban planning and sustainable cities around the world. Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Cities is presented, by way of introduction, as a non-linear, collaborative approach to knowledge production which combines interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and cross sector approaches to societal problem solving. Examples are taken from five cities including Cape Town, Gothenburg, Greater Manchester, Kisumu, and Melbourne. Each city chapter discusses the drivers behind knowledge co-production and gives examples of activities and approaches that have been used to promote sustainable urban futures. Each chapter is written to promote mutual learning from the approaches that are already in use. Building upon these city cases, the conclusions outline topics for future research that can strengthen the promotion and implementation of the co-production of knowledge for urban sustainability across diverse urban contexts"--

Through this book, readers will gain a comprehensive overview of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production in local contexts as an issue-driven and solution-oriented process, and will come to understand its relationship to societal transformation processes toward sustainability. In a single volume, the theory, approaches and academic implications of this novel type of knowledge production are addressed, together with its societal impacts. In the midst of global anthropogenic impacts that affect various environments, over the past few decades we have observed autonomous initiatives in local communities around the world to tackle these environmental challenges. It is vital that such local actions be scaled up to achieve sustainable societies, which requires societal transformation on larger scales. Thanks to numerous collaborative actions in local communities, transdisciplinary knowledge co-production among diverse stakeholders has successfully been mobilized, resulting in the development of Integrated Local Environmental Knowledge (ILEK); knowledge that can inform and support decisions and actions promoting the sustainable transformation of society. This book uses comparative case studies in communities around the world to illuminate and clarify processes and factors promoting the co-production and utilization of ILEK to facilitate decision-making. In addition, readers will gain deeper insights into the science-society interactions that can contribute to finding collaborative solutions to a wide range of critical environmental problems. Though the book is ideally suited for researchers and students, it also offers a valuable resource for practitioners, government agencies, and stakeholder agencies.

"This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and practice. Through a series of seven case studies, the authors examine what people do when they co-produce knowledge in criminal justice contexts: in prisons and youth detention centres; with criminalised women; from practitioners' perspectives; and with First Nations communities. Co-production holds a promise: that people whose lives are entangled in the criminal justice system can be valued as participants and partners, helping to shape how the system works. But how realistic is it to imagine criminal justice 'service users' participating, partnering, and sharing genuine decision-making power with those explicitly holding power over them? Taking a sophisticated yet accessible theoretical approach, the authors consider issues of power, hierarchy and different ways of knowing to understand the perils and possibilities of co-production under the shadow of 'justice'. In exploring these complexities, the book brings cautious optimism to co-production partners and project leaders. This book provides a foundational text for scholars and practitioners seeking to apply co-production principles in their research and practice. With stories from Australia, the UK and Ireland, the text will appeal to the international community. For students of criminology and social work, the book's critical insights will enhance their work in the field"--

Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in
delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly
onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has
more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible
solution to the public sector's decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources,
by accessing more of society's capacities. In addition, it is seen as part of a
more general drive to reinvigorate voluntary participation and strengthen
social cohesion in an increasingly fragmented and individualized society.
Co-Production and Co-Creation: Engaging Citizens in Public Services
offers a systematic and comprehensive theoretical and empirical examination
of the concepts of co-production and co-creation and their application
in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will
be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective
practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to co-production and
co-creation and will be of interest to researchers, academics, policymakers,
and students in the fields of public administration, business administration,
economics, political science, public management, political science, service
management, sociology and voluntary sector studies.