Resilience through Knowledge Co-Production Book contents
- Resilience through Knowledge Co-production
- Resilience through Knowledge Co-production
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I From Practice to Principles
- 2 The Progression from Collaboration to Co-production: Case Studies from Alaska
- 3 Learning about Sea Ice from the Kifikmiut: A Decade of Ice Seasons at Wales, Alaska, 2006-2016
- 4 Shaping the Long View: Iñupiat Experts and Scientists Share Ocean Knowledge on Alaska’s North Slope
- 5 Indigenous Ice Dictionaries: Sharing Knowledge for a Changing World
- 6 Mapping Land Use with Sámi Reindeer Herders: Co-production in an Era of Climate Change
- 7 Sámi Herders’ Knowledge and Forestry: Ecological Restoration of Reindeer Lichen Pastures in Northern Sweden
- Part II Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Change
- Part III Global Change and Indigenous Responses
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
2 - The Progression from Collaboration to Co-production: Case Studies from Alaska
from Part I - From Practice to Principles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- Resilience through Knowledge Co-production
- Resilience through Knowledge Co-production
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I From Practice to Principles
- 2 The Progression from Collaboration to Co-production: Case Studies from Alaska
- 3 Learning about Sea Ice from the Kifikmiut: A Decade of Ice Seasons at Wales, Alaska, 2006-2016
- 4 Shaping the Long View: Iñupiat Experts and Scientists Share Ocean Knowledge on Alaska’s North Slope
- 5 Indigenous Ice Dictionaries: Sharing Knowledge for a Changing World
- 6 Mapping Land Use with Sámi Reindeer Herders: Co-production in an Era of Climate Change
- 7 Sámi Herders’ Knowledge and Forestry: Ecological Restoration of Reindeer Lichen Pastures in Northern Sweden
- Part II Indigenous Perspectives on Environmental Change
- Part III Global Change and Indigenous Responses
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
Summary
Community-based research can produce many outcomes: from the documentation of knowledge to the connection of different types of knowledge to the true co-production of knowledge. In this chapter, we describe our experiences with two projects that lie along this spectrum. The Bering Sea Project documented local and traditional knowledge about the region’s ecosystem, leading to papers that presented that knowledge, connected it to other ways of understanding the human role in the ecosystem and developed a new understanding of the ways in which ecosystem conditions affect hunting success. The Bidarki Project started as an ecological study of a keystone intertidal grazer and developed into a co-production effort exploring history and culture to explain today’s patterns in intertidal abundance. In both cases, the path towards co-production started with personal relationships and continued by taking advantage of opportunities that arose during the course of each project. Not all community-based projects will result in co-production of knowledge nor is that outcome the only measure of success, but all will benefit from the essential foundations of true collaboration which are mutual respect and intellectual equality.
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- Resilience through Knowledge Co-ProductionIndigenous Knowledge, Science, and Global Environmental Change, pp. 27 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022