New Directions in Co-Producing Research to Action for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Co-producing research with communities and practitioners is widely recognized as a critical practice in sustainability to link knowledge to societal action. However, despite decades of calls for co-produced research, broader impacts, and actionable science, these efforts are often limited by institutional (dis)incentives and science funding models as well as an underappreciation for issues related to governance, politics and power. For this Special Issue, we invite papers that explore the possibilities and potentials for the next generation of co-production that links knowledge to action for sustainability. We welcome empirical work that analyzes under-conceptualized aspects of co-production (including social processes, politics, governance, and power). While we do not want to dwell on barriers, we do invite papers that examine barriers to co-production with attention to how they might be unlocked or transformed. We also invite conceptual papers that explore new frameworks for collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and communities and how academic and public sector organizations can create conditions to foster the ability to link knowledge to action. We hope to receive papers of any kind that analyze and identify the processes and practices required to foster the next generation to knowledge co-production for sustainability.

Prof. Dr. Thaddeus R. Miller
Guest Editor

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• knowledge co-production
• sustainability science