Knowledge coevolution: generating new understanding through bridging and strengthening distinct knowledge systems and empowering local knowledge holders

• Published in: Sustainability Science
• Main Authors: Chapman, J. M., Schott, S.
• Other Authors: Genome Canada, Polar Knowledge Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Sociology and Political Science; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Health(social science); Global and Planetary Change; Canada; Gjoa Haven; Nunavut
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00781-2; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11625-020-00781-2.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-020-00781-2/fulltext.html

Abstract The effective and appropriate bridging of Western science with traditional or Indigenous knowledge is an ongoing discussion in the literature and in practice. The discourse transitioned from separate knowledge system to knowledge integration and most recently to knowledge co-production. We...