
RIA White Paper, 'Better together: Knowledge co-production for a sustainable society'
11 January 2022The RIA white paper, ‘Better together: Knowledge co-production for a sustainable society’, provides an overview of knowledge co-production for sustainability and environmental research in Ireland; highlights the benefits and challenges of co-production approaches, and identifies key levers for building capacity and capability for knowledge co-production.
The paper draws on almost 50 case studies of co-production research for sustainability, along with the outputs from the online Royal Irish Academy symposium and workshop ‘Better together: Knowledge co-production for a sustainable society’, which took place on 3 June 2021.
Report Authors:
- Dr Paul Bolger (Lead Author), Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork and Royal Irish Academy Climate Change & Environmental Sciences Committee (RIA CCES);
- Professor Pat Brereton, Dublin City University and RIA CCES;
- Dr Olga Grant, Office of Government Procurement and RIA CCES;
- Dr Diarmuid Torney, Dublin City University and Future Earth Ireland