TY - JOUR
T1 - Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change
AU - Cornell, Sarah
AU - Berkhout, Frans
AU - Tuinstra, Willemijn
AU - David Tabara, J.
AU - Jaeger, Jill
AU - Chabay, Ilan
AU - de Wit, Bert
AU - Langlais, Richard
AU - Mills, David
AU - Moll, Peter
AU - Otto, Ilona M.
AU - Petersen, Arthur
AU - Pohl, Christian
AU - van Kerkhoff, Lorrae
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - Linking knowledge with action for effective societal responses to persistent problems of unsustainability requires transformed, more open knowledge systems. Drawing on a broad range of academic and practitioner experience, we outline a vision for the coordination and organization of knowledge systems that are better suited to the complex challenges of sustainability than the ones currently in place. This transformation includes inter alia: societal agenda setting, collective problem framing, a plurality of perspectives, integrative research processes, new norms for handling dissent and controversy, better treatment of uncertainty and of diversity of values, extended peer review, broader and more transparent metrics for evaluation, effective dialog processes, and stakeholder participation. We set out institutional and individual roadmaps for achieving this vision, calling for well-designed, properly resourced, longitudinal, international learning programs. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - Linking knowledge with action for effective societal responses to persistent problems of unsustainability requires transformed, more open knowledge systems. Drawing on a broad range of academic and practitioner experience, we outline a vision for the coordination and organization of knowledge systems that are better suited to the complex challenges of sustainability than the ones currently in place. This transformation includes inter alia: societal agenda setting, collective problem framing, a plurality of perspectives, integrative research processes, new norms for handling dissent and controversy, better treatment of uncertainty and of diversity of values, extended peer review, broader and more transparent metrics for evaluation, effective dialog processes, and stakeholder participation. We set out institutional and individual roadmaps for achieving this vision, calling for well-designed, properly resourced, longitudinal, international learning programs. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - Sustainability science
KW - Knowledge democracy
KW - Knowledge systems
KW - Mode 2 science
KW - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
KW - SCIENCE
KW - IMPLEMENTATION
KW - POLICY
U2 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.008
DO - 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.008
M3 - Article
SN - 1462-9011
VL - 28
SP - 60
EP - 70
JO - Environmental science & policy
JF - Environmental science & policy
ER -