Schneider Flurina, Buser Tobias
1Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, Hallerstr. 10, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net), Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Bern, Switzerland.
Sustain Sci. 2018;13(1):129-142. doi: 10.1007/s11625-017-0507-4. Epub 2017 Nov 7.
Stakeholder interactions are increasingly viewed as an important element of research for sustainable development. But to what extent, how, and for which goals should stakeholders be involved? In this article, we explore what degrees of stakeholder interaction show the most promise in research for sustainable development. For this purpose, we examine 16 research projects from the transdisciplinary research programme NRP 61 on sustainable water management in Switzerland. The results suggest that various degrees of stakeholder interaction can be beneficial depending on each project's intended contribution to sustainability, the form of knowledge desired, how contested the issues are, the level of actor diversity, actors' interests, and existing collaborations between actors. We argue that systematic reflection about these six criteria can enable tailoring stakeholder interaction processes according specific project goals and context conditions.
利益相关者的互动日益被视为可持续发展研究的一个重要元素。但利益相关者应在何种程度、以何种方式以及为了哪些目标参与其中呢？在本文中，我们探讨了在可持续发展研究中，何种程度的利益相关者互动最具前景。为此，我们研究了瑞士跨学科研究项目NRP 61中关于可持续水资源管理的16个研究项目。结果表明，根据每个项目对可持续性的预期贡献、所需知识的形式、问题的争议程度、行为主体的多样性水平、行为主体的利益以及行为主体之间现有的合作情况，不同程度的利益相关者互动可能都是有益的。我们认为，对这六个标准进行系统反思能够根据特定的项目目标和背景条件来量身定制利益相关者互动过程。
