Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations

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  • Josephine M. Chambers
  • Carina Wyborn
  • Nicole L. Klenk
  • Melanie Ryan
  • Anca Serban
  • Nathan J. Bennett
  • Ruth Brennan
  • Lakshmi Charli-Joseph
  • María E. Fernández-Giménez
  • Kathleen A. Galvin
  • Bruce E. Goldstein
  • Tobias Haller
  • Rosemary Hill
  • Claudia Munera
  • Jeanne L. Nel
  • Henrik Österblom
  • Robin S. Reid
  • Marja Spierenburg
  • Maria Tengö
  • Elena Bennett
  • Amos Brandeis
  • Paul Chatterton
  • Jessica J. Cockburn
  • Christopher Cvitanovic
  • Pongchai Dumrongrojwatthana
  • América Paz Durán
  • Jean David Gerber
  • Jonathan M.H. Green
  • Rebecca Gruby
  • Angela M. Guerrero
  • Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu
  • Jasper Montana
  • Patrick Steyaert
  • Julie G. Zaehringer
  • Angela T. Bednarek
  • K. Curran
  • Salamatu J. Fada
  • Jon Hutton
  • Beria Leimona
  • Tomas Pickering
  • Renee Rondeau

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 emergent feature vital for turning tensions into transformations. Co-productive agility refers to the willingness and ability of diverse actors to iteratively engage in reflexive dialogues to grow shared ideas and actions that would not have been possible from the outset. It relies on embedding knowledge production within processes of change to constantly recognize, reposition, and navigate tensions and opportunities. Co-productive agility opens up multiple pathways to transformation through: (1) elevating marginalized agendas in ways that maintain their integrity and broaden struggles for justice; (2) questioning dominant agendas by engaging with power in ways that challenge assumptions, (3) navigating conflicting agendas to actively transform interlinked paradigms, practices, and structures; (4) exploring diverse agendas to foster learning and mutual respect for a plurality of perspectives. We explore six process considerations that vary by these four pathways and provide a framework to enable agility in sustainability transformations. We argue that research and practice spend too much time closing down debate over different agendas for change – thereby avoiding, suppressing, or polarizing tensions, and call for more efforts to facilitate better interactions among different agendas.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102422
JournalGlobal Environmental Change
Volume72
Number of pages17
ISSN0959-3780
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2022

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