Journal
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 995-1004Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.04.006
Keywords
Adaptation; Adaptive governance; Knowledge co-production; Knowledge integration; Resilience; Social learning; Traditional knowledge; Vulnerability
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- ArcticNet
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- Northern Scientific Training Program (INAC)
- IPY-CAVIAR Project
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Co-management institutional arrangements have an important role in creating conditions for social learning and adaptation in a rapidly changing Arctic environment, although how that works in practice has not been clearly articulated. This paper draws on three co-management cases from the Canadian Arctic to examine the role of knowledge co-production as an institutional trigger or mechanism to enable learning and adapting. Experience with knowledge co-production across the three cases is variable but outcomes illustrate how co-management actors are learning to learn through uncertainty and environmental change, or learning to be adaptive. Policy implications of this analysis are highlighted and include the importance of a long-term commitment to institution building, an enabling policy environment to sustain difficult social processes associated with knowledge co-production, and the value of diverse modes of communication, deliberation and social interaction. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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