TY - JOUR
T1 - Thinking Big and Thinking Small: A Conceptual Framework for Best Practices in Community and Stakeholder Engagement in Food, Energy, and Water Systems
AU - Kliskey, Andrew
AU - Williams, Paula
AU - Griffith, David L.
AU - Dale, Virginia H.
AU - Schelly, Chelsea
AU - Marshall, Anna Maria
AU - Gagnon, Valoree S.
AU - Eaton, Weston M.
AU - Floress, Kristin
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation, grant numbers SES? 1639524, OIA?1757324 through the NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program, and BCS?1856059 through the EngageINFEWS Research Coordination Network.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/2/2
Y1 - 2021/2/2
N2 - Community and stakeholder engagement is increasingly recognized as essential to science at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to address complex issues surrounding food and energy production and water provision for society. Yet no comprehensive framework exists for supporting best practices in community and stakeholder engagement for FEWS. A review and meta‐synthesis were undertaken of a broad range of existing models, frameworks, and toolkits for community and stakeholder engagement. A framework is proposed that comprises situational awareness of the FEWS place or problem, creation of a suitable culture for engagement, focus on power‐sharing in the engagement process, co‐ownership, co‐generation of knowledge and outcomes, the technical process of integration, the monitoring processes of reflective and reflexive experiences, and formative evaluation. The framework is discussed as a scaffolding for supporting the development and application of best practices in community and stakeholder engagement in ways that are arguably essential for sound FEWS science and sustainable management.
AB - Community and stakeholder engagement is increasingly recognized as essential to science at the nexus of food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to address complex issues surrounding food and energy production and water provision for society. Yet no comprehensive framework exists for supporting best practices in community and stakeholder engagement for FEWS. A review and meta‐synthesis were undertaken of a broad range of existing models, frameworks, and toolkits for community and stakeholder engagement. A framework is proposed that comprises situational awareness of the FEWS place or problem, creation of a suitable culture for engagement, focus on power‐sharing in the engagement process, co‐ownership, co‐generation of knowledge and outcomes, the technical process of integration, the monitoring processes of reflective and reflexive experiences, and formative evaluation. The framework is discussed as a scaffolding for supporting the development and application of best practices in community and stakeholder engagement in ways that are arguably essential for sound FEWS science and sustainable management.
KW - Best practices
KW - Community engagement
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - Co‐production
KW - Food‐energy‐water systems
KW - Stakeholder engagement
KW - Transdisciplinary
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U2 - 10.3390/su13042160
DO - 10.3390/su13042160
M3 - Article
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
SN - 2071-1050
IS - 4
M1 - 2160
ER -