Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems

Zähringer, Julie Gwendolin; Schneider, Flurina; Heinimann, Andreas; Messerli, Peter (2019). Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Telecoupled Land Systems. In: Friis, Cecilie; Nielsen, Jonas Ø. (eds.) Telecoupling: Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World. Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management (pp. 357-381). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-11105-2_19

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Land is at the core of our planet’s sustainable development challenges. Different actors have contesting claims on ecosystem services provided by local land systems. Land-use changes therefore always entail trade-offs in terms of ecosystem service provision. The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a normative frame for land system science to produce relevant knowledge for transformation. Such knowledge should include an understanding of social-ecological systems from a systemic as well as a power perspective. Telecoupled interactions between distant systems present an additional challenge to knowledge production requiring methodological innovation. To co-produce evidence for navigating trade-offs inherent to land-use changes, we need to embrace the three knowledge dimensions of systems, target, and transformation knowledge and make use of inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches.

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