Co-Producing Sustainability: Knowledge Co-Production, International Collaboration and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (Workshop)

该奖项将为2017年9月在芬兰北部伊纳里举行的“北极可持续发展和知识共享”国际研讨会提供部分支持。研讨会的目标是促进知识整合，并从科学、政策和社区的角度提高对北极知识联合生产、国际合作和可持续发展之间关系的理解。该研讨会将于2017年9月18日至20日在北极理事会（AC）可持续发展工作组（SDWG）会议（2017年9月21日至22日）之前举行。研讨会安排在九月份可持续发展工作组会议之前举行，以促进可持续发展工作组成员国代表、北极理事会观察员组织代表、永久参与国代表以及交流科学工作组成员的参与。通过以这种方式安排讲习班，它将为主要的国际决策者以及科学家和土著学者提供更广泛的参与。此外，这将提供规模经济，因为一些被邀请的参与者将得到其组织的支持，参加可持续发展工作组会议。讲习班将制作可公开获得的材料，用于教育和知识传播目的。其中将包括一份最终报告，记录介绍和讨论的要点，以及一份供决策者参考的摘要。2015年，在加拿大担任北极理事会主席期间，在伊魁特举行的第九届部长级会议上，可持续发展工作组通过正式提交《关于将传统知识和地方知识纳入北极理事会工作的建议》，向北极高级官员提出了建议。在这次会议之后的两年里，可持续发展工作组和咨询委员会就如何准确实施这些建议进行了辩论。北极社会科学界、土著和非土著学者普遍认识到，科学研究中知识合作生产的新发展模式可以提供一种模式，帮助北极共同体将传统知识整合到其工作中。该研讨会将是北极理事会高级北极官员和常任理事国之间更广泛努力的一部分，旨在就如何将传统知识纳入理事会的议事程序找到共同点。近十年来，北极可持续性研究的一个重要趋势是，作为北极可持续性知识体系的关键组成部分，当地和土著知识的日益整合。知识联合生产已经成为北极地区最先进的技术，北极土著学者和社区在开发联合生产方法和制定全面、综合的方法来理解耦合和动态的社会生态系统方面处于领先地位。将土著知识纳入学术研究和政策制定是一项艰巨的任务，需要土著社区、社会科学家和政策制定者共同努力。通过在所有相关群体之间创造国际跨学科知识交流机会来建立联系和桥梁，是北极可持续发展跨学科综合办法的一个重要组成部分。

This award provides partial support for an international workshop on "Arctic sustainable development and knowledge sharing" in September 2017 in Inari, northern Finland. The goal of the workshop is to promote knowledge integration and to improve understanding of the relationships between knowledge co-production, international collaboration, and sustainable development in the Arctic from science, policy, and community perspectives. The proposed workshop would take place on September 18-20, 2017, immediately prior to the Arctic Council (AC) Sustainable Development Working Group's (SDWG) meeting (September 21-22, 2017).  The workshop has been organized to take place prior to the September SDWG meeting in order to facilitate the participation of SDWG member states representatives, Arctic Council Observer organization representatives, Permanent Participant representatives, as well as the AC science working group members. By scheduling the workshop in this way, it will provide for broader participation by key international policy makers, as well as scientists and Indigenous scholars. In addition, this will provide for an economy of scale since a number of the invited participants will already be supported by their organizations to participate in the SDWG meeting.  The workshop will produce publicly available materials, which could be used for educational and knowledge dissemination purposes. These will include a final report documenting the essence of the presentations and discussions and a summary for policymakers. During the Canadian Chairmanship of the AC, at the 9th Ministerial Meeting in Iqaluit, 2015, the SDWG made recommendations to the Senior Arctic Officials through the official delivery of the "Recommendations for the Integration of Traditional and Local Knowledge into the Work of the Arctic Council." In the two years since this event, the SDWG and AC have debated how exactly to implement these recommendations. There is wide recognition among the Arctic social science community, Indigenous and non-indigenous scholars, that the new developing model of knowledge co-production in science research could offer a model for assisting the AC in these efforts of the integration of Traditional Knowledge into its work. This workshop would be part of a broader effort between the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council and the Permanent Participants to find common ground on how to incorporate Traditional Knowledge into the proceedings of the Council. An important trend in Arctic sustainability research in the last decade is the increasing integration of the local and Indigenous knowledge as a key component of the Arctic sustainability knowledge system. Knowledge co-production has become the state-of-the-art in Arctic, and Arctic Indigenous scholars and communities are leading the way in developing co-production methodologies and formulating holistic, integrated approaches to understanding coupled and dynamic social-ecological systems. Engaging Indigenous knowledge in scholarship and policymaking is a monumental task that requires combined, collaborative efforts of Indigenous communities, social scientists and policymakers. Building connections and bridges by creating international, interdisciplinary knowledge exchange opportunities among all groups involved is an important element of an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to sustainable development in the Arctic.