Nicole Klenk
Biographic Data
| ID | 3463268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Klenk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Klenk |
| SIGNATURE | KLENK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8224-6992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 475 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 43 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Learning from Dolls
This article examines the pedagogical possibilities of learning from dolls through an interdisciplinary collaboration centred on the Indigenous and ethnic doll collection of María de Lourdes Orozco Cuautle, a Nahua historian and collector based in Puebla, Mexico. Bringing together faculty, students, librarians and community collaborators at the University of Toronto Scarborough, the Learning from Dolls project uses dolls as material, cultural and…
Legitimizing Experience
This article explores how lived experience can be communicated through narrative to evoke embodied and affective understanding. Focusing on industrial tree planting in British Columbia, it combines self-observation and research-creation to examine how storytelling conveys experiential knowledge often overlooked in forest management. A vivid personal narrative highlights the sensory, emotional, and relational dimensions of planting work. Drawing o…
Reimagining environmental science & policy
A scoping review of participatory tools and practices in collaborative processes
In this article, we ask how the different tools and practices used in participatory and collaborative processes could support multi-actor collaboration in integrated landscape approaches (ILAs). First, we conducted a scoping review to identify and synthesize literature on participatory and collaborative approaches related to forest, water, land and landscapes. Secondly, we analysed 130 articles to understand how and by which means these approache…
Stakeholder and rightsholder engagement in environmental research
To promote inclusivity, relevance and actionability of environmental research, scholars are engaging with rightsholders and stakeholders (Indigenous groups, governments and individuals) to co‐produce research. These transdisciplinary approaches represent diverse forms of ‘engaged’ research (e.g. community‐engaged research, braiding Indigenous science and knowledge and Western science‐based knowledge, workshops with decision‐makers). Acknowledging…
Principles for ethical boundary spanning between science, policy and practice
Knowledge brokers have emerged as a key mechanism for facilitating knowledge exchange across institutional and epistemic divides to enable more inclusive, informed, and context-sensitive decision-making. However, despite growing recognition about their value and importance, critical gaps remain related to how knowledge brokers operate that hinders their effectiveness and efficiency in practice. One such gap relates to the ethical dimensions of th…
How can we better account for experiential knowledge in co-production frameworks
From Problem-Solving to Meaning-Making
Adaptation requires attuning to shifting temporal patterns
Constructing the public in public perceptions research
Contemporary scientific and technological endeavours face public and political pressure to adopt open, transparent and democratically accountable practices of public engagement. Prior research has identified different ways that experts ‘imagine publics’ – as uninformed, as disengaged, as a risk to science, and as co-producers of knowledge – but there has yet to be a systematic exploration of how these views emerge, interact and evolve. This artic…
The multiple meanings of knowledge in scholarship at the science-policy interface
Will climate change degrade the efficacy of marine resource management policies
A research agenda for the science of actionable knowledge
Linking science with action affords a prime opportunity to leverage greater societal impact from research and increase the use of evidence in decision-making. Success in these areas depends critically upon processes of producing and mobilizing knowledge, as well as supporting and making decisions. For decades, scholars have idealized and described these social processes in different ways, resulting in numerous assumptions that now variously guide…
News media coverage of Covid-19 public health and policy information
During a pandemic, news media play a crucial role in communicating public health and policy information. Traditional newspaper coverage is important amidst increasing disinformation, yet uncertainties make covering health risks and efforts to limit transmission difficult. This study assesses print and online newspaper coverage of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 for March 2020, when the global pandemic was declared, through August 2020 in three c…
Promises and pitfalls of digital knowledge exchange resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic
Six modes of co-production for sustainability
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…
Actionable knowledge and the art of engagement
Great expectations? Reconciling the aspiration, outcome, and possibility of co-production
Making room and moving over
The politics of co-production
Usable environmental knowledge from the perspective of decision-making
Understanding the limitations of current RFMO climate change adaptation strategies
While Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) face many challenges in their pursuit of sustainable resource development, climate change is among the most pressing and least addressed. Research has identified a host of expected or ongoing physical, biological, ecological, and social impacts of climate change on the marine environment, creating a strong climate change adaptation imperative for RFMOs. Through a case study of the Inter-Am…
Adaptation Lived as a Story
Within the field of climate change adaptation research, “stories” are usually simply mined for data, developed as communication and engagement technologies, and used to envision different futures. But there are other ways of understanding people’s narratives. This article explores how we can move away from understanding stories as cultural constructs that represent a reality and toward understanding them as the way in which adaptation is lived. T…
Urban configurations of carbon neutrality
This paper examines configurations of carbon neutrality in the building and energy sector as expressed in the urban governance documents of the members of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA). ‘Carbon neutrality’ is a mutable idea, which makes it unclear what kinds of future urban systems are imagined. As self-identified pioneers of deep decarbonization, the CNCA members are constructing ideas about what carbon neutral means and how urban sy…
The politics of co-production
Climate change and transdisciplinary science
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors, is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor understanding of how to navigate the tensions that emerge in these processes. Through analyzing 32 initiatives worldwide that co-produced knowledge and action to foster sustainable social-ecological relations, we conceptualize ‘co-productive agility’ as an eme…
Making room and moving over
Six modes of co-production for sustainability
Transdisciplinary sustainability research beyond engagement models
To co-produce or not to co-produce
Actionable knowledge and the art of engagement
Great expectations? Reconciling the aspiration, outcome, and possibility of co-production
From network to meshwork
Transdisciplinary research has been promoted as a means of bringing together certified experts and stakeholders to produce knowledge that is policy-relevant, salient, credible, and legitimate to inform decision-making about complex problems. In this article I discuss the limitations of using the ‘network’ metaphor in transdisciplinary research practice and propose the use of a different metaphor to make transdisciplinary research encounters more …
Discourses of carbon neutrality and imaginaries of urban futures
Evaluating the social capital accrued in large research networks
This paper examines the social capital that evolved in the Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN), one of the Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence. Our longitudinal study shows a sevenfold increase in the total number of researchers and a high density of relationships among (researchers from) provinces across the country. The results of a social network analysis revealed that 52.6 percent of the network researchers maintained the same…
The Geopolitics of Climate Knowledge Mobilization
Climate change and sustainability science have become more international in scope and transdisciplinary in nature, in response to growing expectations that scientific knowledge directly informs collective action and transformation. In this article, we move past idealized models of the science-policy interface to examine the social processes and geopolitical dynamics of knowledge mobilization. We argue that sociotechnical imaginaries of transdisci…
A rhetorical analysis of the scientific debate over assisted colonization
Government science in forestry
How can formal research networks produce more socially robust forest science
Usable environmental knowledge from the perspective of decision-making
The politics of evidence
The design and management of multi-stakeholder research networks to maximize knowledge mobilization and innovation opportunities in the forest sector
Understanding the limitations of current RFMO climate change adaptation strategies
While Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) face many challenges in their pursuit of sustainable resource development, climate change is among the most pressing and least addressed. Research has identified a host of expected or ongoing physical, biological, ecological, and social impacts of climate change on the marine environment, creating a strong climate change adaptation imperative for RFMOs. Through a case study of the Inter-Am…
Urban configurations of carbon neutrality
This paper examines configurations of carbon neutrality in the building and energy sector as expressed in the urban governance documents of the members of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA). ‘Carbon neutrality’ is a mutable idea, which makes it unclear what kinds of future urban systems are imagined. As self-identified pioneers of deep decarbonization, the CNCA members are constructing ideas about what carbon neutral means and how urban sy…
The development of assisted migration policy in Canada
The assisted migration of western larch in British Columbia
From Problem-Solving to Meaning-Making
Dwelling in Dialogues
Home" may be understood as an intangible concept separate from its material manifestation—the tangible place where one dwells, the house. However, this is not necessarily the way people experience the two concepts of "home" and "house". In daily life, both the experience of the tangible and the intangible dimensions of "home" may be inextricably linked. To explore how lived religion and spirituality relate to these dimensions, we engaged practici…
The Ethics of “Following Nature” in Forestry
Communication and Management Challenges in Large, Cross-sector Research Networks
In large cross-sector research networks, good communication is critical to the effective management of research partnerships. In this paper we report on a communication audit conducted to identify the communication pathways and flow of information within the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Network, a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE). The results indicate a range of communication challenges that can be related to an inherent pro…
Government science in forestry
Evaluating the social capital accrued in large research networks
This paper examines the social capital that evolved in the Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN), one of the Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence. Our longitudinal study shows a sevenfold increase in the total number of researchers and a high density of relationships among (researchers from) provinces across the country. The results of a social network analysis revealed that 52.6 percent of the network researchers maintained the same…
How can formal research networks produce more socially robust forest science
A rhetorical analysis of the scientific debate over assisted colonization
Adapting forest certification to climate change
In the context of climate change, the forest sector must consider the extent to which sustainable forest management enables or constrains climate change adaptation and mitigation; it may be that existing values and principles, policies and decision‐making processes, and institutions are no longer appropriate. Forest certification has emerged as an important arena for setting international and regional standards for forest management, but it is un…
The assisted migration of western larch in British Columbia
Climate change and transdisciplinary science
The design and management of multi-stakeholder research networks to maximize knowledge mobilization and innovation opportunities in the forest sector
The development of assisted migration policy in Canada
Discourses of carbon neutrality and imaginaries of urban futures
Transdisciplinary sustainability research beyond engagement models
Adaptation Lived as a Story
Within the field of climate change adaptation research, “stories” are usually simply mined for data, developed as communication and engagement technologies, and used to envision different futures. But there are other ways of understanding people’s narratives. This article explores how we can move away from understanding stories as cultural constructs that represent a reality and toward understanding them as the way in which adaptation is lived. T…
Urban configurations of carbon neutrality
This paper examines configurations of carbon neutrality in the building and energy sector as expressed in the urban governance documents of the members of the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA). ‘Carbon neutrality’ is a mutable idea, which makes it unclear what kinds of future urban systems are imagined. As self-identified pioneers of deep decarbonization, the CNCA members are constructing ideas about what carbon neutral means and how urban sy…
To co-produce or not to co-produce
The politics of evidence
From network to meshwork
Transdisciplinary research has been promoted as a means of bringing together certified experts and stakeholders to produce knowledge that is policy-relevant, salient, credible, and legitimate to inform decision-making about complex problems. In this article I discuss the limitations of using the ‘network’ metaphor in transdisciplinary research practice and propose the use of a different metaphor to make transdisciplinary research encounters more …
The Geopolitics of Climate Knowledge Mobilization
Climate change and sustainability science have become more international in scope and transdisciplinary in nature, in response to growing expectations that scientific knowledge directly informs collective action and transformation. In this article, we move past idealized models of the science-policy interface to examine the social processes and geopolitical dynamics of knowledge mobilization. We argue that sociotechnical imaginaries of transdisci…
Making room and moving over
The politics of co-production
Usable environmental knowledge from the perspective of decision-making
Understanding the limitations of current RFMO climate change adaptation strategies
While Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) face many challenges in their pursuit of sustainable resource development, climate change is among the most pressing and least addressed. Research has identified a host of expected or ongoing physical, biological, ecological, and social impacts of climate change on the marine environment, creating a strong climate change adaptation imperative for RFMOs. Through a case study of the Inter-Am…
Actionable knowledge and the art of engagement
Political science (27 works) · Computer Science (22 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (19 works) · Business (17 works) · Ecology (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Knowledge management (15 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Psychology (10 works)