Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes: a co-produced research agenda.

ABSTRACT: Participatory approaches to science and decision making, including stakeholder engagement, are increasingly common for managing complex socio-ecological challenges in working landscapes. However, critical questions about stakeholder engagement in this space remain. These include normative, political, and ethical questions concerning who participates, who benefits and loses, what good can be accomplished, and for what, whom, and by who. First, opportunities for addressing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion interests through engagement, while implied in key conceptual frameworks, remain underexplored in scholarly work and collaborative practice alike. A second line of inquiry relates to research-practice gaps. While both the practice of doing engagement work and scholarly research on

SUBMITTER: Eaton WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9651121 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature