A roadmap to the Co-production of a decision support tool for coastal ecosystems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12667357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Manuel (Tulane University, corresponding author), Ehab Meselhe (0000-0002-5832-8864, Tulane University), Barbara A Kleiss (0000-0002-9348-4379, Tulane University), Kristy A Lewis (0000-0002-3554-4468, University of Central Florida), Holly Madill (Michigan State University), Mead A Allison (0000-0001-9090-1811, Tulane University), Mead Allison, Steve Giordano (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 144 |
| Pages | 31-42 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Science & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-9011 • E-ISSN: 1873-6416 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.envsci.2023.03.001 |
| OpenAlex | W4324394901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
Coastal ecosystems are complex and often support a broad spectrum of functions with competing objectives. In addition to their ecological value, they offer socio-economic benefits (i.e., ecosystem services) to coastal communities. One potential way to help address this complexity is to use decision support systems to help natural resources managers understand system dynamics and evaluate strategies to maintain the health and integrity of these ecosystems. This paper presents a roadmap and detailed application of co-production strategies where managers and researchers are fully engaged in a collaborative manner in the design of a decision support tool for coastal ecosystems. It also emphasizes the importance of capturing end-users’ (i.e., natural resource managers) priorities to refine the conceptual design of the decision support tool, while maintaining a sound scientific and modeling framework. The case study presented here centers on the Northern Gulf of Mexico, but the concept can be exported globally to other systems. This effort highlights foundational co-production strategies, including transdisciplinary team assembly, a knowledge sharing workshop, Toolbox Dialogue Initiative workshops to facilitate working across disciplines, core team and focus group meetings, and design charrettes. Further, this paper articulates the benefits and difficulties of executing a co-production process through virtual collaborations. • Coastal ecosystem management by co-productive, interdisciplinary design methods. • Co-production design strategies for decision support systems. • Northern Gulf of Mexico natural resource management decision support tool
Business · Decision support system · Economics · Ecosystem · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Production (economics · Coastal and Marine Management · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
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The art of co-production of knowledge in environmental sciences and management
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Integrating local and scientific knowledge for environmental management
Boundary organizations and environmental governance
Covid-19 and digital inequalities
Actionable Knowledge for Environmental Decision Making
Characteristics, potentials, and challenges of transdisciplinary research
Transdisciplinary global change research
Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
Boundary spanning at the science–policy interface
Factors influencing the use of decision support tools in the development and design of conservation policy
Strategies for building and managing ‘trust’ to enable knowledge exchange at the interface of environmental science and policy
The co-production of science and policy in integrated climate assessments
Co-producing science for sustainability
Dynamic adaptive policy pathways
Contested Boundaries in Policy-Relevant Science
Stabilizing the Boundary between US Politics and Science
Integrating Social Science and Design Inquiry Through Interdisciplinary Design Charrettes
Countering the Loading-Dock Approach to Linking Science and Decision Making
Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |