Knowledge co-production for anticipatory governance
Mon, 23 May
|Webinar
Our speaker, Prof. Dr. Esther Turnhout will discuss how and to what extent perspectives on what needs to change in the production of knowledge have shifted over time, focusing on the environmental domain.


Time & Location
23 May 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT+2
Webinar
Guests
About the event
It has been almost 30 years since Funtowicz and Ravetz published their seminal article that introduced the concept of postnormal science. The title of that paper is markedly similar to the title of this webinar. Instead of science for the postnormal age, we now talk about knowledge coproduction for anticipatory governance. In this talk, our speaker, Prof. Dr. Esther Turnhout will discuss how and to what extent perspectives on what needs to change in the production of knowledge have shifted over time, focusing on the environmental domain. She will also discuss the challenges and obstacles in realizing the long-standing ambitions to transform the production of knowledge to better fit with current societal needs. Drawing on recent work with Myanna Lahsen, Dr Turnhout suggests that these challenges and obstacles are fundamentally interlinked with interests and incentives within the research system as well as with values of neutrality and policy relevance. Persistent…