Coproducing flood risk knowledge: redistributing expertise in critical 'participatory modelling'
Coproducing flood risk knowledge: redistributing expertise in critical 'participatory modelling'
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DOI：
10.1068/a43482
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发表时间：
2011-07-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Bradley, Susan
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作者：
Landstroem, Catharina;Whatmore, Sarah J.;Bradley, Susan
本文认为，计算机模拟模型可以提供机会，在与环境问题有关的科学和受影响的公众之间重新分配专业知识。然而，为了使科学建模有助于有关环境过程的新知识主张的共同生产，科学家需要根据他们的建模实践重新定位自己。在本文中，我们研究了一个过程，在这个过程中，两个水文建模者成为一个扩展研究集体的一部分，产生了关于英国一个农村小镇洪水的新知识。这个过程出现在一个试验一种新的参与性研究工具——能力小组的项目中，旨在利用公众争议产生的能量，使科学专业知识以外的知识能够为环境知识做出贡献。根据“分离”和“依附”的动态，我们分析了科学家重新定位的过程，并绘制了与所关注的问题相关的专业知识的普遍排列被解开和新连接组装的方式。我们展示了知识和技能的再分配如何在扩展的研究集体中产生一个新的计算机模型，体现了共同产生的洪水风险知识。
This paper suggests that computer simulation modelling can offer opportunities for redistributing expertise between science and affected publics in relation to environmental problems. However, in order for scientific modelling to contribute to the coproduction of new knowledge claims about environmental processes, scientists need to reposition themselves with respect to their modelling practices. In the paper we examine a process in which two hydrological modellers became part of an extended research collective generating new knowledge about flooding in a small rural town in the UK. This process emerged in a project trialling a novel participatory research apparatus-competency groups-aiming to harness the energy generated in public controversy and enable other than scientific expertise to contribute to environmental knowledge. Analysing the process repositioning the scientists in terms of a dynamic of 'dissociation' and 'attachment', we map the ways in which prevailing alignments of expertise were unravelled and new connections assembled, in relation to the matter of concern. We show how the redistribution of knowledge and skills in the extended research collective resulted in a new computer model, embodying the coproduced flood risk knowledge.