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CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 42, Issue -, Pages 22-29Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.11.010
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- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- National Science Foundation [DBI-1639145]
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Co-production is an increasingly popular approach for environmental and sustainability research, but what is actually produced through its practiceremainsunderstudied. Thispaperreviewsrecentexamplesof co-produced research alongside current theorization on the topic. Focusing on the area of climate change adaptation, we find that co-produced climate change adaptation research appears to be improving knowledge use, among other positive outcomes, but a difference emerges between the range of outcomes reported in practice and the scope of ambition conceived through theory. This raises important questions about how the practice of knowledge co-production should be evaluated and, fundamentally, what we should expect to produce through co-production. We argue that understandingandreconcilingthetransformativepotentialofscience-practice collaborations within the context of the incremental progress achieved through its current practice will catalyze a more integrated and actionable scholarship and practice.
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