Land is a critical nexus for advancing the United Nation's 2030 Agenda, as its management is affecting the delivery of most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is because land lies at the intersection of diverse and potentially conflicting claims concerning societies' sustainable development needs. These claims might be bound to a specific context, but in today's interconnected world, they are increasingly linked to complex multi-scale, cross-scale, and telecoupled processes that exacerbate the risk of inequality and marginalisation. Owing to this complexity, navigating competing claims on land in an equitable way necessitates approaches that help address multi-faceted real-world problems. Transdisciplinary and transformative research approaches go beyond interdisciplinarity by transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries and co-producing knowledge with multiple stakeholders. They have been proposed as a mechanism to understand sustainability challenges, define common sustainable development targets and identify most promising pathways towards these targets.
GLP understands as co-design the joint formulation of research questions, objectives and methods involving science and society. Co-production of knowledge means the generation of “new knowledge involving both academics and non-academics in a strongly interactive way, so that the research process requires forms of knowledge and expertise that cannot be supplied by the researchers alone” (Robinson and Tansey 2006). We will use thereafter in the text “co-production” meaning both co-design as well as co-production. This Working Group aims to foster the exchange, critical reflection, adoption and multiplication of co-production approaches within the GLP community and beyond.
The main goal of the WG is to foster the the exchange, critical reflection, adoption and multiplication of co-production approaches within the GLP community and beyond, to enhance its relevance for the solving of pressing land sustainability concerns. Building on the results and learnings of the first phase, the following specific objectives will be addressed:
GLP Themes: Telecoupling of land use systems, Land governance, Land management systems
GLP Methods: Co-production and transdisciplinarity
Event
In this nine-day online course from the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern in Switzerland, experienced sustainability researchers will highlight the most important development issues in their respective fields. Deadline to register: 31 May 2023.
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Join SSC Members Rachael Garrett and Sharad Lele for an open discussion on different routes towards successful engaged research. This webinar is co-sponsored by the GLP Scientific Steering Committee and the GLP Working Group on Co-Production of Sustainable Land Systems.
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Webinar 1: Setting the stage (June 2018)
Webinar 2: Adaptive landscape approaches using role-playing games (October 2018)
Webinar 3: Participatory modelling, scenario building and forecasting techniques in land system science (November 2018)
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Webinar 5: Ethical and contextual considerations in knowledge co-production; and lessons learned from the webinar series (March 2019)
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France
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Laos
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Chile
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Sweden
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Germany
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Portugal
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India
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Germany
Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA)
India
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Azerbaijan
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Germany
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ATREE
India
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