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Torsten Krause

Torsten Krause

Senior Lecturer, Director of PhD Studies

Torsten Krause

Advancing co-production for transformative change by synthesizing guidance from case studies on the sustainable management and governance of natural resources

Author

  • Fernanda A. van Maurik Matuk
  • Bas Verschuuren
  • Piero Morseletto
  • Torsten Krause
  • David Ludwig
  • Steven J. Cooke
  • Moacir Haverroth
  • Marieke Maeesters
  • Thomas J.M. Mattijssen
  • Sabine Keßler
  • Tomaz R. Lanza
  • Esther Milberg
  • Lin Chau Ming
  • Carlos Alberto Hernández-Vélez
  • Késia Mara T. da Silva
  • Marcos Paulo V. Souza
  • Vanessa Oliveira Souza
  • Jackson Washington Fernandes
  • Bruna L. dos Reis Carvalho
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Summary, in English

Co-production has become paramount for scientists, practitioners and social groups of Indigenous peoples and local communities of rural and urban areas to deliver transformative changes that enhance sustainability. Co-production should result in knowledge that is credible, legitimate and usable to enable sustainable outcomes effectively. However, this is not always the case due to challenges related to differences between scientific and Indigenous and local knowledge, as well as inherent power imbalances. The literature emphasises that these challenges are often triggered by rigid scientific theories and postures, dominant practices, and time-money limitations that co-production projects involve. This happens despite the adoption of guidelines recommended in the literature. We investigate the role of these challenges and guidelines in the generation of credible, legitimate, usable, and effective knowledge. We analyse this role in 13 co-production cases focused on sustainable transformative changes linked with the management and governance of natural resources across the globe. Despite challenges varying between groups and contexts, credibility, usability, and effectiveness are promoted simultaneously, especially when co-production empowers social actors via legitimate processes. Scientists and practitioners do so, through creative and flexible reshaping of existing knowledge and worldviews with a focus on common goals that link sustainability and livelihoods. They conceptualise a mutual understanding of knowledge and that is deemed trustworthy feasible to use in their socioecological context. Our findings complement existing scholarship on co-production, exploring the credibility of situated knowledge and its practical effectiveness together with its commonly addressed legitimacy and usability. A focus on the practices of different actors, including dynamics that are external to co-production, and changes in the scientific and social status quo, are needed to advance co-production effectiveness.

Department/s

  • LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)

Publishing year

2023-11

Language

English

Publication/Series

Environmental Science and Policy

Volume

149

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • Co-production
  • Indigenous and local knowledge
  • Participation
  • Sustainability
  • Transformative changes

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1462-9011