Source: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY submitted to NRP
ADVANCING SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE OF STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN WORKING LANDSCAPES
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1023309
Grant No.
2020-67019-31756
Cumulative Award Amt.
$49,748.00
Proposal No.
2020-01551
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Sep 1, 2020
Project End Date
Aug 31, 2022
Grant Year
2020
Program Code
[A1451]- Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment: Agroecosystem Management
Recipient Organization
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
408 Old Main
UNIVERSITY PARK,PA 16802-1505
Performing Department
Agricultural Economics, Sociol
Non Technical Summary
Complex agri-environmental problems, including nonpoint source pollution and streamflow and aquifer depletion, threaten food production, human health, and ecological integrity. Solutions to these problems often require cooperation and participation of large numbers of private landowners. To build support for these efforts and improve outcomes, policy and practice have increasingly turned to stakeholder engagement processes as a central component of program implementation. Stakeholder engagement is believed to build trust and enable the individual and collective behavior changes required to improve agri-environmental outcomes. While stakeholder engagement is widely used, scientific research on whether and how, and under what conditions, it actually leads to improvements in social, economic, and environmental outcomes remains uncertain. Without improved knowledge of stakeholder engagement processes and associated outcomes, we risk wasting resources, damaging relationships, and ultimately failing to achieve lasting social and environmental change.To address this gap, we will hold a series of meetings culminating in aprofessionally facilitated workshop where scientists, practitioners, and community stakeholders will review existing research and build a research agenda on how best to study and evaluate the impacts of stakeholder engagement. The workshop will enable researchers from diverse disciplines to compare research methods and results, and to engage with practitioners to collaboratively assess the science and practice of stakeholder engagement on working agricultural landscapes. The project will develop a report outlining what is currently known about the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement, research needed to improve our knowledge, and a future research agenda, that will be disseminated to scientists, practitioners, and policymakers through various channels. We will also organize a special issue of a peer-reviewed scientific journal to reach a broader scientific audience and catalyze additional research. Finally, we will assist in organizing a new research network for scholars and practitioners to continue efforts to conduct research on stakeholder engagement. Through these activities, this project will lead to increased and more focused research on stakeholder engagement, and catalyze new collaborations and networking across scientist, practitioner, and community stakeholder participants, and therefore contribute to improved coordination to address water resource challenges in agricultural working landscapes.
Animal Health Component
(N/A)
Research Effort Categories
Basic
100%
Applied
(N/A)
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
11102103080100%
Knowledge Area
111 - Conservation and Efficient Use of Water;

Subject Of Investigation
0210 - Water resources;

Field Of Science
3080 - Sociology;
Goals / Objectives
Our project will promote sustainable agroecosystems by identifying the state-of-the-science, knowledge gaps, and research opportunities for achieving sustainable management practices and conservation outcomes through stakeholder engagement. The long-term goals of this project are to (a) create a national network of scholars, practitioners, stakeholders, and agency personnel working on engaged approaches to research, planning, and decision-making on complex socio-environmental problems, (b) identify key gaps in our understanding about the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement processes in producing beneficial social and environmental outcomes in working landscapes; and (c) develop a research agenda for addressing these gaps. We will convene a two-day workshop focused on socio-environmental problems in agricultural working landscapes. The workshop will gather together multidisciplinary researchers from a range of fields working on the science of engagement and practitioners and stakeholders doing engagement to achieve the following three objectives:Objective 1: Facilitate new collaborations to foster future research and community engagement projects.Objective 2: Disseminate a workshop summary of leading scholarship and research gaps to researchers and practitioners. Objective 3: Disseminate cutting-edge scholarship on the science of engagement.
Project Methods
The methods used in this project focus on building collaborations among researchers and practitioners to improve the science of stakeholder engagement. Four main methods will be used. (1) The project leadership group will organize a series of virtual meetings culminating in a professionally facilitated, in-person (or virtual pending Covid19 status summer 2021) conference workshop to bring researchers and practitioners together to share their on-going research, identify research gaps and a common coordinated research agenda, and build a collaborative research network to improve the practice and impacts of stakeholder engagement. The workshop will be designed and implemented with the assistance of professional facilitators. Agendas will be designed to provide an environment and process for effective collaboration, generating creative transdisciplinary ideas and developing a research program for addressing practical and scientific needs related to stakeholder engagement in agricultural working landscapes. (2) The project meetings and workshop will be the basis for a collaboratively written summary document that identifies research gaps, best practices, and an agenda for future work. (3) The project will coordinate submissions for a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal focused on research into the effectiveness and impacts of engaging stakeholders in management of working agricultural landscapes. (4) The project will establish a new research network to pursue aspects of research agenda developed through workshop activities to create a sustainable platform for continued collaborations after the end of the grant.

Progress 09/01/20 to 06/22/22

Outputs
Target Audience:Over 160 individuals participated throughout the workshop series. Workshop series participants had diverse professional, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds and interests ranging from the practice of stakeholder engagement to scientific research about stakeholder engagement ethics, contexts, processes, outcomes, and evaluation. Participants--about half of whom identified as early career--wore multiple professional hats and identities and primarily included individuals identifying as researchers, practitioners, or combinations thereof from the following groups: Academic faculty from research and teaching universities primarily in the United States, but also including institutions based in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and central European countries. Graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and other early career researchers and practitioners. Practitioners and professionals with government agencies primarily based in the United States, but also Canada, including individuals employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Practitioners and professionals with non-governmental organizations focused on wildlife and natural resource conservation including American Farmland Trust, National Wildlife Federation, Practical Farmers of Iowa, and Social and Water Conservation Society. Professionals, researchers, and educators with Cooperative Extension. Professionals affiliated with Indigenous Nations and organizations. Researchers with USDA Agricultural Research Service. Professionals with agricultural experiment stations. Professionals with private stakeholder engagement consulting firms. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? The engagement workshop series connected 160 registered participants including both early career, making up approximately half of all participants, and more established national and international researchers, practitioners, and other professionals. Participation in the workshop series provided opportunities for early career participants to build new relationships with more established participants with similar interests. The project created a participant list with contact information available to all participants, and virtual meetings included opportunities for participants to form new collaborations. Two components of the process were particularly helpful for professional development. First, intentional effort was made to include both early and established researchers and practitioners in each of the working groups. Second, author participants were assigned to peer review writing circles that afforded participants numerous opportunities for peer feedback and discussion. The project provided mentoring and training opportunity for one Graduate Student. This included experience communicating, convening, and facilitating workshop activities in a virtual setting. This also included managing the writeshop process and editorial process for the journal special issue. This involved communicating with authors, collecting and reviewing draft manuscripts, facilitating author paper presentations, facilitating and providing revisions and feedback, and ensuring all manuscripts developed through the writeshop process were successfully submitted to the journal special issue. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?All workshop materials including agendas, notes, audio and video recordings, and reports, white papers, and research articles are made available to all 160 registered workshop series participants. We continue to share materials produced through this project with the open access workshop report https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/d6066f7e-045c-41f7-af69-9cc15e1e81f3 and journal special issue https://link.springer.com/journal/42532/topicalCollection/AC_7839d65b3eeed754079dafa85b84a63f. We shared project results and invited future collaboration with new participants during the IASNR workshops we held in San Jose, Costa Rica, June 2022. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During project period, the organizing team designed, conveyened, and facilitated 4 virtual workshops with over 160 registrants including academics and professionals from North America, the U.K., European Union, and other counties, resulting in an international network of scholars and practitioners with a shared interest in research and practice of stakeholder engagement (Obj. 1), established and facilitated working groups that collaboratively identified and developed a research agenda for improving scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes (Obj. 1 and Obj. 2), and facilitated a write shop process resulting in a journal special issue with Socio-Ecological Practice Research with 1 manuscripts published, 1 accepted, and 15 under review (Obj. 3). Objective 1: Facilitate new collaborations to foster future research and community engagement projects. A workshop series was held virtually October 2020 - June 2022: Kickoff Workshop (October 2020) included introductions, process overview, collaborative research network and research agenda activities. Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Workshop (February 2021) involved interactive activities to further develop the shared research agenda as well as a discussion on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion with expert panel members from academia, government, and non- governmental organizations. Working Groups Joint Workshop (April 2021) where participants self-selected and began working in smaller working groups reflecting the main categories of the emerging research agenda. Final Workshop (June 2021) included facilitated activities to identify priority research opportunities, learn from the previous nine months of transdisciplinary work, identify next steps, and discussions around papers in development for the Special Issue. International Association of Society & Natural Resources (IASNR) San Jose Costa Rica Advancing Engagement Workshops (June 2022) focused on presenting and growing/building on the collaborative research network and future research agenda products from the workshop series through interactive and faciliated activities spanning two 90 minute sessions. Twenty workshop participants developed new research manuscripts addressing topics related to workshop themes. Participant reflections underscore the workshop series as building new collaborations among researchers and practitioners that foster future research and engagement projects: "I feel like there's been a lot of benefits to participate in this...the potential for collaboration between researchers and practitioners, especially around establishing a research agenda and then being much better and more specific about communicating findings that are actionable." "Whatever I thought about engagement was totally blown out the window through this project: how to study it, how to know how to do it, how to talk about it, not to mention doing engagement..." "I've spent a lot of time thinking about how to best translate the outcomes of the research to practitioners, not just through academic literature, so I think this has been really helpful to learn a lot more about the research that's going on. And hopefully we'll be able to collaborate with folks in the future, maybe try to translate that a little bit better into things that practitioners can use." "It's been great to be surrounded by so much passion for this topic, I feel like I'm often working in my own little bubble, and so it's nice to put faces to folks who are working in this space, either from the practitioner or the academic side and thinking about these things. You can't help but broaden your own view and thinking about the issue and where to take it next, and I do also appreciate all the collaboration and how open people are to sharing what they're doing." "My participation has really propelled my research forward... I've been around these areas my whole time in academia. This is the first time I've been focusing on it in a formalized way so it's really pushed my work forward" "I've been excited about the focus on JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) and I hope that that energy keeps kind of moving forward as something that's focused on within this group's work" "I've been doing work in community engagement for many years and have tended to fall into a trap of sort of maintaining relationships with the same small group of people professionally. This has been refreshing to see who else is interested in doing this work and the kind of work that's being done... terms that I normally don't use, learning new ways that people are thinking about this and studying it has been refreshing and it's opened up for me some new avenues and new thinking and new people, which I really appreciate. Also, I'm very glad to see people who are just starting out in their academic careers latching onto this and moving it forward. That to me is very hopeful." Objective 2: Disseminate a workshop summary. The workshop process led to forming new interdisciplinary working groups and white papers developed by each working group that informed the "34 co-produced research opportunities" research agenda and workshop final report published here:https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/d6066f7e-045c-41f7-af69-9cc15e1e81f3 This workshop report also includes synthesis of work produced through interactive sessions, as well as workshop agendas, presentations, and other outputs. The report was completed, published, and shared within and beyond the network starting January 18, 2022. Organizing team and working group co-leads devised a distribution and publicity plan for the final report. As of June 22, 2022, this workshop report has received 552 views (over 90 average monthly views) and over 50 total downloads. The workshop research agenda is also be summarized in a peer reviewed publication now under review with Socio Ecological Practice Research with the special issue of papers developed through the writeshop process. An outline of the workshop report is as follows: Contents Problem Statement, Workshop Goals, Activities, and Participants Project goals Workshop Series - Process Overview Workshop Series to Co-produce a Research Agenda and Network: Planning and Process Design Kickoff Workshop (October 2020) Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Workshop (February 2021) Working Group Meetings (March 2021) Working Groups Workshop (April 2021) Working Group Meetings (May 2021) Final Workshop (June 2021) Writeshop and Journal Special Issue Co-produced Research Agenda Purpose Co-Production Process and Products 34 Co-produced Research Opportunities Theme 1: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Theme 2: Ethics Theme 3: Research and Practice Theme 4: Context Theme 5: Process Theme 6: Outcomes Integrating Research and Practice Collaborative Research Network Participant Reflections Objective 3: Disseminate cutting-edge scholarship on the science of engagement. In a parallel effort with the Engagement Workshop Series described above, twenty workshop participants were invited to lead development of new research manuscripts addressing topics related to workshop themes. This parallel effort was envisioned as welcoming but not requiring scholarly research as a component of participation in the workshop series. Authors participated in a series of peer review writing circles, lightning talks, and author meetings intended to foster learning and identify linkages across papers. 17 of these articles are now being collected in a special issue in Socio Ecological Practice Research available here: https://link.springer.com/journal/42532/topicalCollection/AC_7839d65b3eeed754079dafa85b84a63f edited by the project's organizing team. This special issue also includes an editorial and a research article describing the co-produced research agenda.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2022 Citation: Gagnon, V.S., Schelly, C., Lytle, W. et al. Enacting boundaries or building bridges? Language and engagement in food-energy-water systems science. Socio Ecol Pract Res 4, 131148 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-022-00110-0
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Douglas Jackson-Smith, Hadi Veisi. Bringing farmers back in: Comparing alternative approaches to participatory agricultural research. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Kayla Smith. A Fox, a Chicken, and a Sack of Grain: Crossing the River of Restoration Conflict Through Mediated Modeling. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2022 Citation: Sarah Church, et al. How does co-production influence adaptive capacity? Lessons from a cross-case comparison. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Justine Lindemann, Ted Alter. Democratic Promise of University Outreach and Engagement: How does Extension engage within cities and city-regions? Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Katherine Canfield. Perspectives on stakeholder engagement and researchers roles in solutions-driven research. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: John Whitton. Farmer Led Participation in a State of Climate Emergency  Understanding Participation Methods and Priorities. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Jodi Delozier, Mark Burbach, Weston M. Eaton. A Research Agenda and Conceptual Framework for Capitalizing on Boundary Spanners Ability to Enhance Science-based Collaborative Environmental Policy-making. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Loretta Singletary, et al. Developing Evidence-Based Practices for Effective Stakeholder Engagement to Enhance Climate Resilience and Food Security in Arid Snow-Fed River Basins. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Andres Urcuqui-Bustamante, et al. Learning Outcomes of a simulated Payment for Hydrological Services (PHS) Program Negotiation: Contribution of collaborative experiential methods to participants learning about PHS programs. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Annie Booth, Theresa Healy. The Importance of Being Taught: Improving Public Engagement in Resource Management through learning by doing. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Jen Holzer. Streamlining techniques for better stakeholder representation at collaborative landscape management virtual workshops. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Stacia Ryder. A means to a social acceptance end? Problematizing instrumental value-driven community engagement in proposed energy projects Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Rebecca Som Castellano, Anne Mook. A Critical Assessment of Participation in Stakeholder Engagement. Socio Ecol Pract Res
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Eaton, W. M., T., Robertson, M. Burnham, et al. Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes: A co-produced research agenda. Review article with Advancing Engagement Special Issue of Socio-Ecological Practice Research.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2022 Citation: Eaton, Weston M. et al. Advancing scholarship and the practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes: A report of a workshop series. This workshop is supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Advancing scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes grant no. 2020-01551 project accession no. 1023309 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Online: doi.org/10.26207/b8rt-5q47
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2022 Citation: Micah Fisher. From Knowledge to Action: Convening Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Initiatives in the Asia-Pacific.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2022 Citation: Eaton, Weston M., Morey Burnham, Kathryn Brasier, Sarah P. Church, Georgia Hart-Fredeluces, and Grace Wildermuth. Advancing the Scholarship and Practice of Stakeholder Engagement in Working Landscapes, editors with Special Issue in Socio-Ecological Practice Research. https://link.springer.com/journal/42532/topicalCollection/AC_7839d65b3eeed754079dafa85b84a63f


Progress 09/01/20 to 08/31/21

Outputs
Target Audience:160 participants registered for participation in four 2-day engagement workshops held virtually during the months of October 2020, February 2021, April 2021, and June 2021. These four workshops, as well as numerous related working group meetings to pursue project goals, have connected us with diverse participants with interests ranging from the practice of doing stakeholder engagement to scientific research on stakeholder engagement contexts, processes, outcomes, and evaluation. Workshop series registrants include researchers and practitioners from the following groups with interest and experience with the practice of and scientific research for and on stakeholder engagement: Academic faculty from research and teaching universities primarily in the United States, but also including institutions based in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the European Union, central European countries, India, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, and Australia. Graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and other early career researchers and practitioners. Practitioners and professionals with government agencies primarily based in the United States, but also Canada, including individuals employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, and United States Department of Agriculture. Practitioners and professionals with non-governmental organizations focused on wildlife and natural resource conservation including American Farmland Trust, National Wildlife Federation, Practical Farmers of Iowa, Social and Water Conservation Society. Professionals, researchers, and educators with Cooperative Extension. Researchers with USDA Agricultural Research Service. Professionals with agricultural experiment stations. Professionals affiliated with private consulting firms. Professionals affiliated with indigenous nations and organizations. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The engagement workshop series connected 160 registered participants including both early career, making up approximately half of all participants, and more established national and international researchers and practitioners. Participation in the workshop series provided opportunities for early career participants to build new relationships with more established participants with similar interests. The project created a participant list with contact information available to all participants, and virtual meetings included opportunities for participants to form new collaborations. Two components of the process were particularly helpful for professional development. First, intentional effort was made to include both early and established researchers and practitioners in each of the working groups. Second, author participants were assigned to peer review writing circles that afforded participants numerous opportunities for peer feedback and discussion. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Throughout the virtual workshop series October 2020 through June 2021, meeting notes, participant agenda, and synthesis reports were prepared and disseminated with the project's 160 registered participants using regular email updates and a shared Google Drive folder. A complete set of workshop materials and products is shared with the group through Google Drive. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The next reporting period will focus on disseminating a workshop summary of leading scholarship and research gaps to researchers and practitioners (Obj. 2) and disseminating cutting-edge scholarship on the science of engagement (Obj. 3). To achieve Obj 2, CO-PIs are currently preparing the final version of the workshop report containing working group reports and other outputs from the workshop series for review by co-leads and then all participants. CO-Pis, co-leads, and facilitators are meeting to plan for publishing and sharing the final report, with the goal of publishing the report before 01_01_2022. To achieve Obj 3, editors will complete their review of papers developed for the special issue, authors will then upload their papers between 11_01_2021 and 02_01_2022. Accepted papers will be available online and collected as special issue which will be collected together before 02_01_2023. A final report will be submitted to USDA before 08_31_2022.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? During the 2020-2021 reporting period, we organized and facilitated 4 virtual workshops with over 160 registrants including academics and professionals from North America, the U.K., European Union, and other counties, resulting in an international network of scholars and practitioners with a shared interest in research and practice of stakeholder engagement (Obj. 1), established and facilitated working groups that collaboratively identified and developed a research agenda for improving scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes (Obj. 1 and Obj. 2), and facilitated a write shop process resulting in a successful special issue proposal with over 20 in-progress manuscripts (Obj. 3). Objective 1: Facilitate new collaborations to foster future research and community engagement projects. October 20 and 23, 2020: Two virtual meetings that aimed to provide background on the overall effort; discuss diversity of participants, get to know one another and identify who is missing; discuss and refine overall process, including informing future workshops; begin to frame the shared research agenda; and begin developing a collaborative research network February 16, 2021: Virtual meeting focusing on the promotion of JEDI in community engagement, the study of engagement, and how to use JEDI as a cross-cutting theme or lens throughout the workshop series. Working groups on research agenda topics formed. March, 2021 (various dates): Working groups met independently to review their topics and adjust as needed, develop a state of the literature summary, identify gaps based on the summary and begin prioritizing which gaps should be addressed first. These conversations were then used as a springboard for the breakout sessions in the April Workshop. April 20, 2021: Virtual meeting providing opportunities for working groups to further their work and solicit feedback from others on emerging issues that warranted full group dialogue. May 2021 (various dates): The working group co-leads met in May to address challenges and supporting groups as they develop their report section. This meeting was intended to assess progress and identify areas of help needed. June 10 and 11, 2021: Culminating two virtual meetings aimed at finalizing working group priorities for the research agenda, discussing the previous 9 months of transdisciplinary work, and gathering insights in the papers in development for the Special Issue. Sixteen 3-minute lightning presentations were given on the Special Issue write shop papers in order to enable all participants to gain an overall understanding of the topics covered in these papers. Participants in the workshop were given the opportunity to sign up to review the papers ahead of publication. The workshop participants all appreciated the opportunities to meet and network with colleagues from across the USA and world. They collectively expressed a desire for some type of organizational structure or network to continue work after the end of the workshop. The workshop demonstrated the benefits of formal and informal discussions between researchers and practitioners working to promote engagement as a key mechanism to ensure inclusive, equitable, and balanced approaches to natural resource management on working landscapes. Plans are in place to develop a possible website, collaborative groups, applied guides for practitioners, and in-person meetings of the group at existing conferences and meetings. Objective 2: Disseminate a workshop summary of leading scholarship and research gaps to researchers and practitioners. The workshop process led to creation of working groups and currently in progress reports from each working group that will make up the workshop summary. The summary will also include synthesis of work produced through interactive sessions. The report will be completed and shared within and beyond the network before January 1, 2022. Organizing team and working group co-leads will meet to devise a distribution and publicity plan for the final report. An in progress draft summary document including public links to agendas, presentations, other in process outputs is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W_snxqkP6qNnuyFOVIeGJvb59bBxaq65Nmq6uedBY8g/edit?usp=sharing The workshop research agenda will also be summarized in a peer reviewed publication that will be part of the special issue of papers that emerged from the writeshop process. An outline of the in progress report is as follows: Workshop Report Outline Overview of need for and purpose of the workshop series Key working definitions within the overview Overview of three goals Research Agenda Cutting edge research New Research Collaboration Network Description of workshop activities Fall kickoff Feb April June Research Agenda Purpose and executive summary overview Figure of Context, Process, Outcomes through JEDI and R/P lens Working group process (methods) Working group reports Next steps Synthesis of JEDI insights Synthesis of Research/Practitioner insights Synthesis of Collaborative Research Network future Objective 3: Disseminate cutting-edge scholarship on the science of engagement. Progress was made on the special issue through the writeshop process coinciding with the full participant workshop meetings. Papers author participants participated in a series of peer review and paper development sessions, resulting in 20 in progress papers. Along with these papers, special issue editors and working group co-leads are leading development of a review article that captures insights developed through the workshop process on a research agenda for stakeholder engagement in working landscapes. Editors will also lead a guest editorial that will be submitted as soon as the final paper is accepted for publication. Special issue editors, including Co-PIs, were successful in their submission of a special issue proposal with the journal Socio Ecological Practice Research. Editors are currently reviewing papers prepared for the writeshop. Papers will then be submitted between 11_01_2021 and 02_01_2022. Accepted papers will be available online and collected as special issue which will be collected together before 02_01_2023.

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Jodi L. Delozier, Mark E. Burbach, Weston M. Eaton. Boundary Spanner Skills in Community-led Engagement: A Case Study. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Theresa Healy, Annie L. Booth. The Importance of Being Taught: Improving Public Engagement in Resource Management Through Learning by Doing. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Stacia Ryder, Chad Walker, Susanna Batel, Hannah Devine-Wright, Patrick Devine-Wright, Fin Sherry-Brennan. A Means to a Social Acceptance End? Instrumental Value & the Co-optation of Community Engagement in Rural Energy Infrastructure Projects. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: John Whitton, Andrew Carmichael. UK Farmer Perceptions of Power Relationships, in Preparation for Transdisciplinary Agricultural Transitions Research. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Michelle Worosz, Hannah Stewart, McKayla Robinette, Brenda Ortiz, Audrey Gamble, Leah Duzy, Rishi Prasad. The Future of Farming: Building a Transdisciplinary Team. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Sarah P. Church, Nicholas Babin, San Luis Obispo, Liam F. Bean, Francis Eanes, Laura Esman, Jackie M. Getson, Ashlie Gilbert, Pranay Ranjan, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Emily Usher, Chloe Wardropper, Linda S. Prokopy. How Does Co-Produced Research Influence Adaptive Capacity? Lessons from a Cross- Case Comparison. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Andres Urcuqui, Theresa Selfa, Kelly Jones, Catherine Ashcraft, Heidi Asbjorsen, Robert Manson. Learning Through a Science-Based Role-Play Negotiation Simulation: The Case of Local Mechanisms for Payment for Hydrological Services in Veracruz, Mexico. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Katherine Canfield, Kate Mulvaney, Casey Chatelain. Perspectives on stakeholder engagement and researchers roles in solutions-driven research. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Valoree Gagnon, Chelsea Schelly, Will Lytle, Andrew Kliskey, Anna-Maria Marshall, Virginia H. Dale, Paula Williams, Michael Waasegiizhig Price. The Role of Language, Meaning, and Practice For Diverse Engagement in FEWS Science and Decision-Making. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Loretta Singletary, Elizabeth Koebele, William Evans, Chris Cobb. Developing Evidence-Based Practices for Effective Stakeholder Engagement to Enhance Climate Resilience and Food Security in Arid Snow-Fed River Basins. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: John Schelhas, Michelle Baumflek, Sarah Hitchner. Navigating Interests in Engaged Research with Diverse Forest Owners. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Rebecca L. Som Castellano, Anne Mook. A Critical Assessment of Participation in Stakeholder Engagement. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Zachary Hurst, Gwendwr Meredith, Claire Friedrichsen, J.D. Wulfhorst. Leveraging On-Farm Research for Co-production and Innovation. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Jennifer M. Holzer, Julia Baird, Gordon Hickey. Expanding representation in environmental governance actor participation. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Ha Pham. Ethical Considerations for Inclusive Climate Change Adaptation. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, Alicia Barceinas-Cruz, Julia Naime, Jerome Dupras. Unexpected Engagement in Payments for Ecosystem Services: Case Studies from Chiapas, Mexico. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Micah Fisher. Five Dilemmas of Participation in Resilience: Guidelines for Working with Communities. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Justine Lindemann, Ted Alter. Democratic Promise of University Outreach and Engagement: How does Extension Engage Within Cities and City-Regions? Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Kayla M. Smith, Karin E. Limburg, Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker. A Fox, a Chicken, and a Sack of Grain: Crossing the River of Restoration Conflict Through Mediated Modeling. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Smutko, Steve. Can We Collaborate Ourselves Out of Social Traps? The Challenges of Artificially Induced Social Equilibria to Mutual Gains Negotiation. Paper prepared for the Advancing Engagement Workshop Series.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2021 Citation: Delozier, Jodi, Mark Burbach, and Weston M Eaton. The Emergence of Boundary Spanners in Collaborative Policy-Making: A Case Study. Paper presentation at International Association of Society and Natural Resources. Online. June 21, 2021.