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| Funder | Formas |
|---|---|
| Recipient Organization | Stockholm University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Start Date | Jan 01, 2021 |
| End Date | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duration | 1,094 days |
| Number of Grantees | 2 |
| Roles | Principal Investigator; Co-Investigator |
| Data Source | Swedish Research Council |
| Grant ID | 2020-01614_Formas |
In this project we are exploring the relevance of co-creation of knowledge, a participatory learning process, for fostering transformative capacity and pathways forward for landscape level climate action.
Water has surfaced as a central theme for Swedish climate change preparedness and addressing this challenge will require transforming how water is managed as a cross sectoral integrated landscape issue.
We focus on factors behind the capacity for collective action for ecosystem-based adaptation to increasing climate variability.
We will study the role of three factors: a) a broad knowledge base, b) landscape history and configuration, and c) collective agency. The Swedish island Öland will be our in-depth case study.
Extreme weather has severely affected Öland in recent years, and an active Water Council (Ölands Vattenråd) is currently facilitating collaborative water management.
Our hypothesis is that a guided process of knowledge co-creation can strengthen the collective capacity to understand climate challenges and to identify and implement novel solutions.
The research involves three tasks: 1) Preparation: baseline mapping of knowledge and joint problem formulation, 2) Implementation: process fostering transformative capacity, and 3) Evaluation: tracing the outcomes.
The project is designed to address key gaps in the emerging literature on co-creation of knowledge for sustainability, and will feed directly into local and regional planning and practice for climate action.
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