This review by Melanie Zurba et al., 2021 explored knowledge coproduction principles and approaches from 2000-2020, and focuses on these aspects in the context of the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Project and the Nunatsiavut region.
This paper highlighted that knowledge co-production studies often converge on four interrelated principles:
Using these principles to distribute power in projects such as the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Project has shown immense potential, but it has also been identified that systemic & contextualized issues, such as data sovereignty must be consistently addressed in order to overcome roadblocks that can halt equitable sustainability science.
This narrative reflection critically examines the principles and practices of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production (KCP) through the SakKijânginnaniattut Nunatsiavut Sivunitsangit (Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures) project.
Fifteen Inuit and non-Inuit project members, including Inuit Research Coordinators, academics, and project management, draw from their individual and collective experiences with KCP to disentangle its benefits and challenges for collaborative research and practice.
In this context the authors found that benefits of KCP emerged from:
Specific challenges were tied to:
The Imappivut Expedition set out in the summer of 2019, conducting visual surveys of the seafloor off the coast of Hebron, Okak and Nain. Marine benthic surveys using a camera sled and a baited remote underwater video system revealed important knowledge gaps identified by the Nunatsiavut Government and Inuit communities regarding benthic biodiversity and habitat structure within major geomorphology features.
Check out this blog post by Oceana Canada to learn more about the vulnerable ecosystems and species encountered & what this means for resource management and protected area decisions.
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We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.
