The importance of broadening the process of knowledge production to a diversity of participants and perspectives is widely recognized in sustainability studies addressing complex and contentious social-environmental problems. Yet the practical ways to engage various knowledge communities and ways of knowing in concrete policy processes need further examination, especially when addressing social-ecological problems characterized by factual disagreements and scientific uncertainty.
JOINED will map out diverse knowledge co-production strategies, including joint fact-finding and deliberative mini-publics, and test their application to science-intensive environmental disputes. We will address the capacity of these approaches to accommodate local and/or practice place-based knowledge and create shared knowledge base among experts, stakeholders, and citizens. The first case study focused on the potential of joint fact finding in the cormorant-fishing conflict in Finland (Saarikoski et al.).
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Heli Saarikoski
Leading researcher
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
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