Co-production of Knowledge

Greenland is central to climate research and research now shows that Greenlanders are far more aware of a rapidly changing Arctic climate than of the underlying global causes. However, their willingness to harness new opportunities exceeds fear of climate change’s consequences.

This paper explores the story of Russia SIKU (sea ice knowledge and use) project, a local and international effort on knowledge documentation and co-production with Indigenous knowledge related to sea ice and climate change. The Russia SIKU team also worked with agency managers, science planners and scientists to prioritize Indigenous knowledge and culture in science activities. Russia SIKU produced 5 dictionaries of ice, sea, weather and snow nomenclature in three local languages.

This paper draws on three co-management cases from the Canadian Arctic to examine the role of knowledge co-production as an institutional trigger or mechanism to enable learning and adapting.  Policy implications of this analysis are highlighted and include the importance of a long-term commitment to institution building, an enabling policy environment to sustain difficult social processes associated with knowledge co-production, and the value of diverse modes of communication, deliberation and social interaction.

This book chapter focuses on ethical considerations and guidelines for co-production, with a focus on Sámi and reindeer herders’ knowledge.

This article draws on outcomes from a meeting of “local and indigenous peoples, decision-makers and scientists” held in Salekhard, Siberia to compare perceptions of the main issues (drivers and consequences of anthropogenic change) affecting health and well-being and recommendations to support collaboration to address these issues.

The authors of this article examines lessons learned about partnerships between researchers and Inuit communities in Inuit Nunangat, northern Canada, developed through the Arctic Corridors and Northern Voices (AC-NV) project, which included a significant youth training component and focused on understanding community-identified impacts and potential management options of increased shipping due to sea ice reductions and a changing climate.

This paper shares the results of a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed and gray literature on knowledge co-production. The authors identify “guiding principles and approaches” that use to synthesize lessons from 102 case studies. They apply what they learn to frame an ongoing knowledge co-production project in Nunasiavut, Canada, the “Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Project.”

This article assesses the sustainability and equity of Alaska salmon systems through a well-being framework that incorporates indicators developed by a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural project team.

The authors use lessons from seven Alaskan case studies to describe a typology of five elements important for the co-production of locally relevant actionable knowledge in Alaska.