DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2014.084
论文题名: Reconciling collaborative action research with existing institutions: Insights from Dutch and German climate knowledge programmes
作者: Termeer C. ; van Buuren A. ; Knieling J. ; Gottschick M.
刊名: Journal of Water and Climate Change
ISSN: 20402244
出版年: 2015
卷: 6, 期: 1 起始页码: 89
结束页码: 103
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Action research
; Climate change
; Governance
; Institutions
; Science–policy interface
英文摘要: Researchers and policymakers increasingly aim to set up collaborative research programmes to address the challenges of adaptation to climate change. This does not only apply for technical knowledge, but for governance knowledge also. Both the Netherlands and Germany have set up largescale collaborative action research (CAR) programmes for the governance of adaptation to climate change. Despite the collaborative designs, the initial enthusiasm, the available resources and the many positive outcomes, both programmes encountered several stubborn difficulties. By comparing both programmes, this paper explores the difficulties researchers encounter, analyses the underlying mechanisms and presents some lessons. It found that many difficulties are related to the tensions that exist between the assumptions underlying the new collaborative trajectories and the logics of the existing policy and research institutions. These institutional misfits are decisive to explain ultimate difficulties and successes. Furthermore, the paper concludes that risk aversion, stereotyping and scale fixation strengthen institutional misfits; and that these misfits persist due to lacking bridging capabilities. We suggest some lessons that can help to resolve the difficulties and reconcile CAR into existing institutions: organize the knowledge arrangement as a collaborative process; construct boundary objects as focal point for collaboration; and invest in bridging capabilities. © IWA Publishing 2015. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/67684
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作者单位: Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Institute of Urban Planning and Regional Development, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany; Competence Centrum Sustainable University, Hamburg University, Germany
Recommended Citation:
Termeer C.,van Buuren A.,Knieling J.,et al. Reconciling collaborative action research with existing institutions: Insights from Dutch and German climate knowledge programmes[J]. Journal of Water and Climate Change,2015-01-01,6(1)