Université de Fribourg

Joint knowledge production in climate change adaptation networks

Muccione, Veruska ; Huggel, Christian ; Bresch, David N ; Jurt, Christine ; Wallimann-Helmer, Ivo ; Mehra, Meeta K ; Pabón Caicedo, José Daniel

In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2019, vol. 39, p. 147–152

Adaptation to changing and new environmental conditions is of fundamental importance to sustainability and requires concerted efforts amongst science, policy, and practice to produce solution-oriented knowledge. Joint knowledge production or co-production of knowledge have become increasingly popular terms to describe the process of scientists, policy makers and actors from the civil society...

Université de Fribourg

A framework for the science contribution in climate adaptation: Experiences from science-policy processes in the Andes

Huggel, Christian ; Scheel, , Marlene ; Albrecht, Franziska ; Andres, Norina ; Calanca, Pierluigi ; Jurt, Christine ; Khabarov, Nikolay ; Mira-Salama, Daniel ; Rohrer, Mario ; Salzmann, Nadine ; Silva, Yamina ; Silvestre, Elizabeth ; Vicuña, Luis ; Zappa, Massimiliano

In: Environmental Science & Policy, 2015, vol. 47, p. 80–94

As significant impacts of climate change are increasingly considered unavoidable, adaptation has become a policy priority. It is generally agreed that science is important for the adaptation process but specific guidance on how and to what degree science should contribute and be embedded in this process is still limited which is at odds with the high demand for science contributions to climate...