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

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. Coproduction 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.

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Main Authors:	MATUK, F. A. VAN M., VERSCHUUREN, B., MORSELETTO, P., KRAUSE, T., LUDWIG, D., COOKE, S. J., HAVERROTH, M., MAEESTERS, M., MATTIJSSEN, T. J. M., KEBLER, S., LANZA, T. R., MILBERG, E., MING, L. C., HERNENDEZ VELEZ, C. A., SILVA, K. M. T. DA, SOUZA, M. P. V., SOUZA, V. O., FERNANDES, J. W., CARVALHO, B. L. DOS R.
Other Authors:	FERNANDA A. VAN MAURIK MATUK, Federal Institute of Minas Gerais; BAS VERSCHUUREN, Wageningen University and Research; PIERO MORSELETTO, Erasmus University; TORSTEN KRAUSE, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies; DAVID LUDWIG, Wageningen University; STEVEN J. COOKE, Carleton University; MOACIR HAVERROTH, CNAT; MARIEKE MAEESTERS, Wageningen University and Research; THOMAS J. M. MATTIJSSEN, Wageningen University and Research; SABINE KEBLER, Institute of Organic Agriculture Luxembourg; TOMAZ R. LANZA, Company Marupa Consultoria; ESTHER MILBERG, Wageningen University; LIN CHAU MING, State University of Sao Paulo; CARLOS ALBERTO HERNANDEZ VELEZ, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies; KÉSIA MARA T. DA SILVA, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies; MARCOS PAULO V. SOUZA, Federal Institute of Minas Gerais; VANESSA OLIVEIRA SOUZA, Federal Institute of Minas Gerais; JACKSON WASHINGTON FERNANDES, Federal Institute of Minas Gerais; BRUNA L. DOS REIS CARVALHO, Federal Institute of Minas Gerais.
Format:	Artigo de periódico biblioteca
Language:	Ingles English
Published:	2023-09-18
Subjects:	Participation, Sustainability, Transformative changes, Indigenous and local knowledge, Co production,
Online Access:	http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1156729 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103574
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