Co-Producing Knowledge for Water, Climate and Risk Governance
This symposium explores how research can extend beyond academia through direct engagement with communities and institutions addressing environmental challenges. It brings together case studies from Vietnam, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Cuba and Bolivia, including school-based disaster risk prevention, community-led water quality monitoring in rural wetlands, and participatory water governance processes under climate change
Across these contexts, the contributions offer a critical reflection on both the successes and the limitations of involving students, local communities, and public actors. From classroom-based risk awareness to citizen-generated water data and multi-stakeholder decision processes, these experiences provide grounded insights into the opportunities and limitations of co-producing knowledge, and their implications for more inclusive and effective natural resource governance.