Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces: Emergent knowledge and monarch butterﬂy conservation

Gustafsson, Karin M,1983-Örebro universitet,Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap,Environmental Sociology Section (author)

Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces : Emergent knowledge and monarch butterﬂy conservation

Funding Agency:Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, USA
We study how knowledge is produced at the intersection of science, environmental policy and public engagement. Based on analysis of monarch butterﬂy conservation, we critically evaluate models of knowledge production. The monarch butterﬂy and its migration have engaged science and enchanted people for over a century, and current threats to monarchs catalyze debates and actions. This paper traces the historical development of knowledge regarding (i) long-term monarch population trends, (ii) the monarch’s dependence on a particular food plant, the milk-weed, and (iii) the monarch as a pollinator. Our analysis indicates that knowledge production and science–policy–practice interfaces cannot be satisfactorily understood through reference to the classical linear model and more recent conceptions of relationally produced knowledge (i.e. co-production). We identify powerful and sometimes contradictory knowledge claims that emerge from unmediated interactions among scientists, advocates, policy makers and diverse publics. The emergent model complements existing models of knowledge production, thereby expanding the conceptual foundation available for making sense of science–policy–practice interfaces.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Sociologi Sociologi hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Sociology Sociology hsv//eng
knowledge production; social change; emergent knowledge; citizen science; milkweed; monarch butterﬂy Danaus plexippus

Wolf, Steven ADepartment of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA (author)
Agrawal, Anurag ADepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA (author)
Örebro universitetInstitutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap (creator_code:org_t)

In:Environmental Policy and Governance: John Wiley & Sons27:6, s. 521-5331756-932X1756-9338

By the author/editor: Gustafsson, Kari ...; Wolf, Steven A; Agrawal, Anurag ...

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