Cooperation without Consensus: Brokering Resiliency with Boundary Objects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Eisenhauer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

AbstractThis paper presents a case study of how boundary objects were deployed to support a collaborative knowledge production process that resulted in the creation of climate change knowledge usable to municipal governments in the New Jersey shore region. In doing so, a case is made that boundary objects are useful throughout the collaborative process in overcoming ambiguity and disagreement. This points to boundary objects possessing a wider array of capabilities than frequently theorized in the climate policy literature. Effectively designing and using boundary objects, however, requires carefully considering how they interface and interact with one another.

scholarly journals Identifying Policy Actions Supporting Weather-Related Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation in Finland

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heikki Tuomenvirta ◽  
Hilppa Gregow ◽  
Atte Harjanne ◽  
Sanna Luhtala ◽  
Antti Mäkelä ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Research And Policy

Climate change adaptation (CCA) policies require scientific input to focus on relevant risks and opportunities, to promote effective and efficient measures and ensure implementation. This calls for policy relevant research to formulate salient policy recommendations. This article examines how CCA research may contribute to policy recommendations in the light of idealized set of knowledge production attributes for policy development in Finland. Using general background information on the evolution of CCA research and a case study, we specifically examine how the set of attributes have been manifested in research serving CCA and discuss how they have affected the resulting policy recommendations. We conclude that research serving CCA can be improved by more explicit reflection on the attributes that pay attention to the context of application, the methods of teamwork and a variety of participating organizations, transdisciplinarity of the research, reflexivity based on the values and labour ethos of scientists and novel forms of extended peer review. Such attributes can provide a necessary, although not sufficient, condition for knowledge production that strives to bridge the gap between research and policy.

Security in Climate Change Discourse: Analyzing the Divergence between US and EU Approaches to Policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod Hayes ◽  
Janelle Knox-Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Us ◽  
Policy Construction

Why has Europe implemented a quite-proactive climate policy while the US has adopted a far less ambitious climate strategy? Does variation in security concerns or other factors better explain this difference in policy? Using a multimethod case study approach, the authors find that in the US, constructions of climate change as a security threat play an important role in developing public support. In Europe, leadership and opportunity discourses predominate. Other factors including centralization of governance, trust in the technocratic elite, and cultural norms contribute to the variation in policy construction.

scholarly journals A Case Study Analysis Informing A Set Of Recommendations For The Successful Implementation of Carbon Pricing Instruments For Toronto, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Brown
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Carbon Pricing ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Successes And Failures

This paper provides a set of recommendations for how the City of Toronto can implement a successful carbon pricing instrument highlighting the importance of Municipal Governments in combating climate change. Through examining the successes and failures of 4 other cities around the world that have enacted carbon pricing instruments a set of criteria has been created. This set of criteria informs 4 specific recommendations for the City of Toronto.

scholarly journals Promoting Collaborative Pedagogy in Classrooms: Challenges and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Bunmi Isaiah Omodan
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Collaborative Pedagogy ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Classrooms ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge Construction

<p><em>Collaborative pedagogy appears to be productive among students and thereby adopted in many classrooms to ensure that students are active participants in the knowledge production process. However, challenges exist among students, alongside their instructors, which hinders the active involvement of students in the collaborative knowledge production process. In the same vein, the study also examines the possible ways to navigate the challenges. The argument is located within social constructivism and conceptual analysis of collaborative pedagogy to explore the trajectories of collaborative classrooms in schools. In response to the challenges, the study proposed solutions that include promotion of unity in diversities among students, the introduction of cultural variations in classrooms, and instigation of student’s readiness to interact. The study concludes that collaborative knowledge construction is worthy of being promoted with the recommendation that schools should ensure that students are taught to be united in the process of generating knowledge and that there must be concerted efforts to teach different cultures in the system with student motivation for natural interest. </em></p>

scholarly journals Collaborative Knowledge Creation in Development Networks: Lessons Learned from a Transnational Programme

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Nascimbeni
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge Building ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
International Development Cooperation

The paper is presenting some considerations on how knowledge is collaboratively created and documented in social networks within International Development Cooperation (IDC) settings, and on the importance of collaborative knowledge production and exploitation within these networks. We argue that knowledge exchange and creation is one of the main added values of networking activities of IDC in the network society, and we advocate for networking to be considered a fundamental component of IDC interventions. A specific case study is presented, showing the impact of collaborative knowledge building on a Europe-Latin America cooperation programme of the European Commission.

scholarly journals Learning from the Experiences of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Balancing Science and Policy to Enable Trustworthy Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustafsson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Boundary Organizations ◽  
Policy Relevance

To create a societal change towards a sustainable future, constructive relations between science and policy are of major importance. Boundary organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have come to play an important role in establishing such constructive relations. This study contributes to the development of empirically informed knowledge on the challenge of balancing different expectations for how the science–policy relation is to be constructed to create trustworthy knowledge and policy decisions, i.e., when to be what and to whom. This study revisits Climategate and uses the public debate on the IPCC’s credibility, legitimacy, and policy relevance that followed Climategate as an analytical window to explore how the IPCC balanced the science–policy relation in a trustworthy manner. The analysis is based on a document study. The study shows how different expectations on the science–policy relation coexist, and how these risks create a loss of trust, credibility, legitimacy, and policy relevance. Thus, for boundary organizations to have a chance to impact policy discussions, reflexivity about the present epistemic ideals and expectations on knowledge production is of major importance, and must be reflected in an organizational flexibility that is open to different strategies on how to connect science and policy in relation to different actors and phases of the knowledge production process.

scholarly journals The neoliberalisation of climate? Progressing climate policy under austerity urbanism

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 1797-1815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter North ◽  
Alex Nurse ◽  
Tom Barker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
Dangerous Climate Change ◽  
The City

While the urban is identified as a productive site for addressing climate change, the ‘post-political’ critique dismisses climate policy as a vacuous discourse that obscures power relations and exclusion, defends the established neoliberal order, and silences challenges. This paper argues that rather than consensus, there is a conflict between urban climate policy and the need to reignite economic growth in the context of austerity urbanism, but also that we should not assume that challenges to neoliberal understandings of the ‘sensible’ will always be disregarded. Rather, urban climate policy can be progressed through partnership processes utilising ‘co-production’ techniques which entail significant agonistic, if not antagonistic, contestation. The argument is illustrated with a case study of climate policy making in the context of austerity urbanism in Liverpool, UK. While ‘low carbon’ is conceptualised by elite actors in Liverpool in neoliberal terms as a source of new low carbon jobs and businesses, with an emphasis on energy security and fuel poverty, this view is not unchallenged. The paper recounts how an ad hoc group of actors in the city came together to form a partnership advocating for more strategic decarbonisation, which should be progressed through a bid for the city to be European Green Capital. The disputes that emerged around this agenda suggest that in the context of austerity urbanism the need for cities to act to mitigate against dangerous climate change is not as uncontested as conceptions of the post-political suggest.

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