Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada

The field of transdisciplinary sustainability science offers limited guidance on what it means to mobilize knowledge outside of conventional policy and decision-making settings. Research within this field tends to emphasize knowledge mobilization for conventional environmental policy venues and deci...

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Autores principales:	Kiri Staples, Jennifer Fresque-Baxter, Evan Andrews, Erin Kelly, Slave River and Delta Partnership, Toddi Steelman
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Knowledge mobilization Transdisciplinarity Sustainability science Credibility Salience Legitimacy Environmental sciences GE1-350
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/d17a0f35e28f46e5b66773f0db57e88f
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d17a0f35e28f46e5b66773f0db57e88f2021-11-12T04:49:34ZMobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada2667-010010.1016/j.envc.2021.100314https://doaj.org/article/d17a0f35e28f46e5b66773f0db57e88f2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667010021002924https://doaj.org/toc/2667-0100The field of transdisciplinary sustainability science offers limited guidance on what it means to mobilize knowledge outside of conventional policy and decision-making settings. Research within this field tends to emphasize knowledge mobilization for conventional environmental policy venues and decision-makers such as state and industry actors. Place-based communities often make critical management decisions to advance sustainability and inform policy, yet the evaluation of sustainability science in these contexts is underexamined. Using a case study, community-based research approach, we explored how social processes in place-based communities shaped interpretations of sustainability science by those involved in and/or affected by research. We used core criteria for knowledge mobilization—salience, legitimacy, and credibility, as established by Cash et al. (2003) — to guide our analysis of how research knowledge was evaluated. Our analysis highlighted that specific relationships, perspectives and worldviews, and historical contexts shaped how salience, legitimacy and credibility were interpreted. We affirm that for knowledge to be effectively mobilized, it must be salient, legitimate and credible, but find that the definitions of these terms are highly dependant on the social contexts in which the research takes place. These insights are critical to future transdisciplinary research aimed at addressing complex sustainability problems impacting place-based communities.Kiri StaplesJennifer Fresque-BaxterEvan AndrewsErin KellySlave River and Delta PartnershipToddi SteelmanElsevierarticleKnowledge mobilizationTransdisciplinaritySustainability scienceCredibilitySalienceLegitimacyEnvironmental sciencesGE1-350ENEnvironmental Challenges, Vol 5, Iss , Pp 100314- (2021)
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topic	Knowledge mobilization Transdisciplinarity Sustainability science Credibility Salience Legitimacy Environmental sciences GE1-350
spellingShingle	Knowledge mobilization Transdisciplinarity Sustainability science Credibility Salience Legitimacy Environmental sciences GE1-350 Kiri Staples Jennifer Fresque-Baxter Evan Andrews Erin Kelly Slave River and Delta Partnership Toddi Steelman Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada
description	The field of transdisciplinary sustainability science offers limited guidance on what it means to mobilize knowledge outside of conventional policy and decision-making settings. Research within this field tends to emphasize knowledge mobilization for conventional environmental policy venues and decision-makers such as state and industry actors. Place-based communities often make critical management decisions to advance sustainability and inform policy, yet the evaluation of sustainability science in these contexts is underexamined. Using a case study, community-based research approach, we explored how social processes in place-based communities shaped interpretations of sustainability science by those involved in and/or affected by research. We used core criteria for knowledge mobilization—salience, legitimacy, and credibility, as established by Cash et al. (2003) — to guide our analysis of how research knowledge was evaluated. Our analysis highlighted that specific relationships, perspectives and worldviews, and historical contexts shaped how salience, legitimacy and credibility were interpreted. We affirm that for knowledge to be effectively mobilized, it must be salient, legitimate and credible, but find that the definitions of these terms are highly dependant on the social contexts in which the research takes place. These insights are critical to future transdisciplinary research aimed at addressing complex sustainability problems impacting place-based communities.
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author	Kiri Staples Jennifer Fresque-Baxter Evan Andrews Erin Kelly Slave River and Delta Partnership Toddi Steelman
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title	Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada
title_short	Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada
title_full	Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada
title_fullStr	Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada
title_full_unstemmed	Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada
title_sort	mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern canada
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/d17a0f35e28f46e5b66773f0db57e88f
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Mobilizing transdisciplinary sustainability science in place-based communities: Evaluating saliency, legitimacy, and credibility in northern Canada

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