TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-Producing Sustainability
T2 - Reordering the Governance of Science, Policy, and Practice
AU - Wyborn, Carina
AU - Datta, Amber
AU - Montana, Jasper
AU - Ryan, Melanie
AU - Leith, Peat
AU - Chaffin, Brian
AU - Miller, Clark
AU - Van Kerkhoff, Lorrae
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/10/17
Y1 - 2019/10/17
N2 - Co-production has become a cornerstone of research within the sustainability sciences, motivating collaborations of diverse actors to conduct research in the service of societal and policy change. This review examines theoretical and empirical literature from sustainability science, public administration, and science and technology studies (STS) with the intention of advancing the theory and practice of co-production within sustainability science. We argue that co-production must go beyond stakeholder engagement by scientists to the more deliberate design of societal transitions. Co-production can contribute to such transitions by shifting the institutional arrangements that govern relationships between knowledge and power, science and society, and state and citizens. We highlight critical weaknesses in conceptualizations of co-production within sustainability sciences with respect to power, politics, and governance. We offer suggestions for how this can be rectified through deeper engagement with public administration and STS to offer a broad vision for enhancing the use, design, and practice of a more reflexive co-production in sustainability science.
AB - Co-production has become a cornerstone of research within the sustainability sciences, motivating collaborations of diverse actors to conduct research in the service of societal and policy change. This review examines theoretical and empirical literature from sustainability science, public administration, and science and technology studies (STS) with the intention of advancing the theory and practice of co-production within sustainability science. We argue that co-production must go beyond stakeholder engagement by scientists to the more deliberate design of societal transitions. Co-production can contribute to such transitions by shifting the institutional arrangements that govern relationships between knowledge and power, science and society, and state and citizens. We highlight critical weaknesses in conceptualizations of co-production within sustainability sciences with respect to power, politics, and governance. We offer suggestions for how this can be rectified through deeper engagement with public administration and STS to offer a broad vision for enhancing the use, design, and practice of a more reflexive co-production in sustainability science.
KW - co-production
KW - governance
KW - institutions
KW - power
KW - science policy interface
KW - sustainability
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033103
DO - 10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033103
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070866473
SN - 1543-5938
VL - 44
SP - 319
EP - 346
JO - Annual Review of Environment and Resources
JF - Annual Review of Environment and Resources
ER -