In Order to Aid in Diffusing Useful and Practical Information
Agricultural Extension and Boundary Organizations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David W Cash (Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 431-453 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/016224390102600403 |
| OpenAlex | W2126706267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 14 |
Agricultural decision making is characterized by two challenges common to multiple arenas: linking science to decision making and linking science and decision making across multiple levels. The U.S. agricultural research, education, and extension system was designed to address these challenges. By investigating this system, this study deepens the understanding of science and decision making, specifically exploring the notion of boundary organizations in two significant ways. First, it provides a preliminary test of the hypothesis that boundary organizations mediate between the shifting domains of science and policy, finding that they are instrumental in creating and maintaining an integrated system of assessment and decision making for addressing depletion of the High Plains Aquifer. Second, it extends the concept of boundary organization beyond the science-policy dimension to incorporate the dimension of levels of organization-not only bridging science and policy but linking science and policy across different levels (e.g., the local, state, and national levels
Agricultural extension · Agriculture · Economics · Management science · Political science · Science policy · Sociology · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Computer Science · Mathematics · Organic Food and Agriculture · Public Administration · Rangeland and Wildlife Management · Ecology
Engaging the Underground
Eklipse
Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics
Ciencia, política y sociedad en la frontera
Linking global and local scales
Changing practice through boundary organizing
Bridging knowledge systems to enhance governance of environmental commons
Credibility, salience, and legitimacy of boundary objects
Salience, Credibility, Legitimacy and Boundaries
Boundary work for sustainable development
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
The Institutional Dimensions of Fisheries Stock Assessments
Civil Society Actors as Catalysts for Transnational Social Learning
À l'épreuve de « crises agricoles »
Expertise or Experience
Whose Ground Truth Is It? Harvesting Lessons from Missouri’s 2018 Bumper Crop of Drought Observations
What Stakeholder Needs Tell Us about Enabling Adaptive Capacity
Usable Science? The U.K. Climate Projections 2009 and Decision Support for Adaptation Planning
Making Science Useful to Decision Makers
Agricultural Advisors as Climate Information Intermediaries
Designing Institutions to Support Local-Level Climate Change Adaptation
Connecting Climate Information Producers and Users
Co-production of risk knowledge and improvement of risk communication
Managing participation across boundaries
ICT and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
How do polycentric governance systems adapt? The role of forums explored in Dutch metropolitan areas
Bridging knowledge systems to enhance governance of environmental commons
Exploring the socio-material boundaries of climate change resilience
Energy model, boundary object and societal lens
Electricity governance and the Western energy imbalance market in the United States
Agrifood systems knowledge exchange through Australia‐Pacific circular migration schemes
A framework for analyzing institutional gaps in natural resource governance
Participatory methods of integrated assessment—a review
Oran Young and international institutions
The Science–Policy Nexus in Collaborative Governance
Coping with Institutional Fragmentation? Competition and Convergence between Boundary Organizations in the Global Response to Polio
Mobile market and changing food governance
Towards science in support of decision making
Is this what success looks like? Mismatches between the aims, claims, and evidence used to demonstrate impact from knowledge exchange processes at the interface of environmental science and policy
Lessons on the generation of usable science from an assessment of decision support practices
Reconciling the supply of scientific information with user demands
The neglected heart of science policy
More than information
The participatory logic of coastal management under the project state
The potential role of boundary organizations in the climate regime
Collaborative networks and new ways of knowing
Collaborative model development increases trust in and use of scientific information in environmental decision-making
Participatory geographic information systems for the co-production of science and policy in an emerging boundary organization
Governance structures for ecosystem-based adaptation
Boundary organisations and their strategies
Reconciling the supply of and demand for carbon cycle science in the U.S. agricultural sector
Rethinking integrated assessments and management projects in the Americas
Identifying enabling factors of science-policy interaction in a developing country context
Factors influencing risk perceptions of genetically modified seafood
Living and responding to multiple stressors in South Africa—Glimpses from KwaZulu-Natal
Creating usable science
Land Trusts as Conservation Boundary Organizations in Rapidly Exurbanizing Landscapes
Beyond Participation
Farmer Participation and Institutional Capture in Common-Pool Resource Governance Reforms. The Case of Groundwater Management in California
Water Managers' Perceptions of the Science–Policy Interface in Phoenix, Arizona
Crossing Boundaries in a Collaborative Modeling Workspace
Non-governmental organizations, strategic bridge building, and the “scientization” of organic agriculture in Kenya
The cultural politics of the agroecological transition
Antibiotic responsibility and agricultural publics
Sustainable intensification
On being all things to all people
Engaging Boundary Objects in OMS and STS? Exploring the Subtleties of Layered Engagement
Managing the science-policy boundary
A new regime of carbon counting
The creation of inclusive governance infrastructures through participatory agenda-setting
Communication processes in intercultural transdisciplinary research
Co-production of salient, credible and legitimate environmental knowledge
Cultural evolution and US agricultural institutions
The Maine Tidal Power Initiative
Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice
Communicating weather and climate information to smallholder farmers in resource-poor climate-vulnerable southern Somalia
Ways of Knowing and Inclusive Management Practices
Scholarly science policy models and real policy, RSD for SciSIP in US Mission Agencies
Why New Hybrid Organizations are Formed
Technology transfer offices as boundary spanners in the pre-spin-off process
Negotiation analysis for mechanisms to deliver ecosystem services
Boundary organizations for sustainable land management
Cultural landscapes and behavioral transformations
Growing knowledge
A framework for Science Shop processes
Building an Infrastructure to Support the Use of Government Administrative Data for Program Performance and Social Science Research
Putting Space and Time in Ricardian Climate Change Impact Studies
Building a Conceptual Approach to Collective Learning
Building a Theory of Learning in Collaboratives
Climate Science and Decision Making
Countering the Loading-Dock Approach to Linking Science and Decision Making
Agroecology as Participatory Science
Hybrid Management
Contradictions in the Last Mile
The biodiversity of food and agriculture (Agrobiodiversity) in the anthropocene
Disciplining Microbes in the Implementation of US Federal Organic Standards
An Application of Boundary Organisation Theory to Develop Landscape-scale Conservation in Formal Agri-environment Schemes
The Nature-Culture Boundary and Ocean Policy
The Battlefield for (Sustainable) Rural Development
The Train Has Left the Station
Global Change in Local Places
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Boundaries of Science
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains
Why regional studies are needed in the development of full-scale integrated assessment modelling of global change processes
Taking the university to the people
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Stabilizing the Boundary between US Politics and Science
Linking global and local scales
Science at the Bar
| Unique citing works | 104 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 98 |