Dear Colleagues,

Determining how the gap between climate science and adaptation actions can be bridged has become a major research challenge in recent years. It is widely recognized that in order for knowledge to be usable, it should be co-produced with users, because this is found to ensure legitimacy, relevance, and salience. Adaptation measures conducted in anticipation of projected climate change are inherently associated with uncertainty. Adaptation can also be costly, lead to restrictions in land use, and affect future local development in different ways. Adaptation can therefore be seen as controversial and lead to conflicts. By recognizing and incorporating the different values and perspectives of stake- and rightsholders in the knowledge basis for adaptation, such controversies and conflicts can be mitigated. Knowledge production processes with user participation are conceptualized under different theories and schools of thought: coproduction of knowledge, action research, mode 2 knowledge production, boundary work, joint knowledge production, and post-normal science. In the literature on adaptation, there has been increasing employment of these perspectives for solving the above-mentioned problems. However, there is still a need to increase knowledge about what kind of methods and approaches best foster coproduction that results in implementation. This Special Issue calls for contributions that increase our knowledge and understanding of how participatory methods, citizen science, action research, and other approaches and methods for coproduction increase legitimacy, reduce conflicts, and increase usability and implementation of adaptation measures.

Dr. Halvor Dannevig
Guest Editor

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• adaptation to climate change
• coproduction of knowledge
• participatory methods
• joint knowledge production
• citizen science
• usable climate knowledge