Knowledge co-production in practice: Enabling environmental management systems for ports through participatory research in the Dutch Wadden Sea

Daniel Puente-Rodríguez, Erik van Slobbe, Iris A.C. Al and Lindenbergh, D.E. (Danny)

Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 55, issue P3, 456-466

Abstract: Coastal zone management is inconceivable without the mobilization and integration of different types of knowledge – that is, without knowledge co-production practices. This article applies the concept of knowledge co-production to analyze the process of emergence, standardization, and enculturation of environmental management systems (EMSs) within port communities in the Dutch Wadden Sea. Moreover, it is a report from the field in which we reflect on the participatory practices conducted to facilitate the knowledge arrangements required to develop EMSs for a group of ports. The article concludes that this type of knowledge arrangement and co-production practices (involving different types of actors and knowledge) might become mandatory in the near future to stabilize the EMS phenomenon in the practices of ports.

Keywords: Knowledge co-production; Participation; Environmental management systems; Coastal zone management; Science and technology studies; Ports; Wadden Sea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.02.014

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