Journal
CLIMATIC CHANGE
Volume 157, Issue 1, Pages 61-80Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-019-02510-w
Keywords
Usable knowledge; Climate services; Co-production; Boundary work; Tanzania
Funding
- National Science Foundation SES-Division of Science, Technology, and Society [1354542]
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Climate Change Resilient Development Small Grants Program [CCRDACD0001]
- University of Colorado Boulder Innovative Seed Grant Program
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences [1354542] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The field of climate services has arisen rapidly out of a desire to enable climate science to meet the information needs of society to respond to climate variability and change. In order for knowledge to be usable for decision-making, in the field of climate adaptation and beyond, it must meet the criteria of credibility, salience, and legitimacy (Cash et al., PNAS 100:8086-8091, 2003). Deliberate co-production of knowledge between producers and users has the potential to increase usability for decision-making and policy in some contexts. While co-production is increasingly advanced as an instrumental approach to facilitate the production of usable climate services, such efforts have paid scant attention to the role of power relations. In this article, we bring together literature on normative approaches to co-production-which treats co-production as an instrumental means to an end-with analytical interpretations of co-production within the field of Science and Technology Studies to examine efforts to develop usable climate services in Tanzania. We show that without reflexive processes that are explicitly attentive to power dynamics, normative co-production within climate services development can serve to reinforce, rather than overcome, power imbalances among actors.
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