Co-productive governance: A relational framework for adaptive governance

Adaptive governance focuses our attention on the relationships between science and management, whereby the so-called ‘gaps’ between these groups are seen to hinder effective adaptive responses to biophysical change. Yet the relationships between science and governance, knowledge and action, remain under theorized in discussions of adaptive governance, which largely focuses on abstract design principles or preferred institutional arrangements. In contrast, the metaphor of co-production highlights the social and political processes through which science, policy, and practice co-evolve. Co-production is invoked as a normative goal (Mitchell et al., 2004) and analytical lens (Jasanoff, 2004a, Jasanoff, 2004b), both of which provide useful insight into the processes underpinning adaptive governance. This paper builds on and integrates these disparate views to reconceptualize adaptive governance as a process of co-production. I outline an alternative conceptual framing, ‘co-productive governance’, that articulates the context, knowledge, process, and vision of governance. I explore these ideas through two cases of connectivity conservation, which draws on conservation science to promote collaborative cross-scale governance. This analysis highlights the ways in which the different contexts of these cases produced very different framings and responses to the same propositions of science and governance. Drawing on theoretical and empirical material, co-productive governance moves beyond long standing debates that institutions can be rationally crafted or must emerge from context resituate adaptive governance in a more critical and contextualized space. This reframing focuses on the process of governance through an explicit consideration of how normative considerations shape the interactions between knowledge and power, science and governance.     

Linking vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience science to practice: Pathways, players, and partnerships

Vulnerability, adaptation and resilience are concepts that are finding increasing currency in several fields of research as well as in various policy and practitioner communities engaged in global environmental change science, climate change, sustainability science, disaster risk-reduction and famine interventions. As scientists and practitioners increasingly work together in this arena a number of questions are emerging: What is credible, salient and legitimate knowledge, how is this knowledge generated and how is it used in decision making? Drawing on important science in this field, and including a case study from southern Africa, we suggest an alternative mode of interaction to the usual one-way interaction between science and practice often used. In this alternative approach, different experts, risk-bearers, and local communities are involved and knowledge and practice is contested, co-produced and reflected upon. Despite some successes in the use and negotiation of such knowledge for ‘real’ world issues, a number of problems persist that require further investigation including the difficulties of developing consensus on the methodologies used by a range of stakeholders usually across a wide region (as the case study of southern Africa shows, particularly in determining and identifying vulnerable groups, sectors, and systems); slow delivery of products that could enhance resilience to change that reflects not only a lack of data, and need for scientific credibility, but also the time-consuming process of coming to a negotiated understanding in science–practice interactions and, finally, the need to clarify the role of ‘external’ agencies, stakeholders, and scientists at the outset of the dialogue process and subsequent interactions. Such factors, we argue, all hinder the use of vulnerability and resilience ‘knowledge’ that is being generated and will require much more detailed investigation by both producers and users of such knowledge.     

Moving boundaries in transboundary air pollution co-production of science and policy under the convention on long range transboundary air pollution

This article focuses on the science–policy interaction in international negotiations in the context of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's Convention for Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). It addresses the question how participants in the assessment process divide and co-ordinate work between science and policy and how this enhances credibility, legitimacy and relevance with multiple audiences. For this purpose the article combines an analytical framework to approach effectiveness of scientific assessment in policy making, with the notion of boundary work and co-production of science and policy. The article argues that knowledge produced within the CLRTAP process and the institutional setting in which this knowledge production takes place cannot be separated from each other. Furthermore credibility, legitimacy and relevance are to a large extent determined by boundary work in an early stage of the process. At the same time boundary work has to take place continuously in order keep the assessment process credible, legitimate and relevant for new audiences. The application of a combined framework for analysing credibility, legitimacy and relevance and for analysing boundary work turns out to be helpful in describing in detail what happens in practice at the science–policy interface. In particular it helps to address the question of the way participants in the assessment process divide and co-ordinate work, how this shapes design elements and how this enhances credibility legitimacy and relevance of an assessment.     

风云气象卫星与潜在国际移动通信系统用户终端在1695~1710 MHz频段兼容性分析

目前我国风云气象卫星广泛使用的1695~1710 MHz频段被2015年世界无线电大会考虑作为国际移动通信(IMT)系统新增划分的候选频段。为了保护气象卫星的频谱资源并了解气象卫星和IMT系统用户端的同频共用干扰情况,本文阐述了风云气象卫星地球站和IMT系统用户终端在1695~1710 MHz频段的特性参数,建立了IMT用户终端的干扰模型,分别仿真分析了潜在的IMT用户端对太阳同步轨道和静止轨道风云气象卫星地面接收链路的干扰,结果表明:工作在1695~1710 MHz频段的IMT用户端对静止和极轨卫星地球站的保护隔离距离至少分别是46km和61km。由于我国布设了大量该频段的气象卫星数据国家级站和省级用户接收站,且移动终端随机移动的特点,这两种业务实际运行中无法兼容共用1695~1710 MHz频段。     

无旋转倾角的NAV/CNAV型GEO广播星历拟合

目前北斗GEO的星历拟合算法和用户卫星位置算法均引进了人为设置的5°倾角旋转,此外,少数星历参数还有超限现象。取消GEO的旋转倾角和抑制参数超限能够统一北斗混合星座的用户算法。基于第一类无奇点根数,分析了无旋转倾角的GEO两步法星历参数拟合算法。讨论了GEO的参数超限原因,提出采用固定1至2个超限参数取值的缩减参数拟合法。北斗GEO卫星在非地影期和地影期的拟合试验表明,拟合成功率和拟合精度能够保证,拟合用户距离误差(URE)的平均值优于3mm;缩减参数拟合法能够抑制特定时段下的参数超限问题,但是拟合URE放大到2cm。     

基于浏览行为的网络地图用户兴趣模型研究

为准确表达用户兴趣,提升网络地图个性化服务效率,本文结合用户的操作行为与视觉行为,探讨了用户兴趣获取的原理与方法。结合Web日志与眼动数据的特点,提取网络地图的用户兴趣特征项,并利用熵权法对用户兴趣度进行估计。通过向量空间模型,构建网络地图用户兴趣模型,并开展验证实验对用户兴趣建模方法进行验证。     

基于Android的控制点手持维护系统的设计与实现

针对传统的控制点管理方法无法解决信息量匮乏、信息现势性不足、不便于野外操作等问题,提出了一种新的基于Android的控制点手持管理方法。采用控制点信息建模技术和移动数据库接口技术,实现了对控制点信息的实时更新;采用网络地图服务集成技术,实现了对控制点信息的深度挖掘以及便于野外操作。通过基于Android的控制点手持维护系统的开发表明:结合Android终端与网络地图服务,可以避免传统方法的不足,更加有效的进行控制点的管理与维护。     

基于用户认知特征的地图可视化系统自适应用户界面研究

地图可视化系统用户界面是地图可视化系统和用户进行信息交互的接口.用户界面存在的问题制约用户对地图可视化系统应有功能的使用.以地图可视化系统的用户为中心,通过探讨用户的认知特征和分析现有地图可视化系统用户界面设计中存在的一些问题,拓宽用户界面的概念,设计一种地图可视化系统自适应用户界面的初步机制,探索让系统的用户界面自动地适应用户特征的方法.     

多类用户的混合星座导航系统定位性能分析

本文针对地面用户与空间用户在测量环境与观测几何动态性等方面的不同,基于导航卫星可见性与加权精度因子(WDOP)对混合星座导航系统的定位性能进行了分析.给出了不同用户的星座天空视图与可视时长;从理论上讨论了权值选取对WDOP的影响.仿真表明,地面静态用户对不同类型导航卫星的可见性差异很大;而低轨卫星用户的可视时长更短,观...     

一种专用矢量地图浏览服务器设计

以地图符号形式表达地理要素是GIS地理信息可视化的有效手段.目前Web GIS发布系统在复杂地图符号的表达能力、地图的快速发布和运行效率等方面存在一定的不足.为此,应用IE浏览器内容扩展技术,结合地图符号表达的特征,设计出面向基础地理数据的地图浏览服务器,给出地理数据类型可兼容的快速发布矢量地图文档结构.据此,开发基于...