Designing Knowledge

Interested in digging deeper into how organizations make and use knowledge? Here are some of our research publications.

 

Practical Lessons in Knowledge Systems and Decision-Making

Munoz-Erickson, Tischa A. “Co-production of knowledge–action systems in urban sustainable governance: The KASA approach.” Environmental Science & Policy 37 (2014): 182-191.

Clark A. Miller, “Assessments: Linking Ecology to Policy,” in S. Levin, ed. The Princeton Guide to Ecology (Princeton: Princeton University Press). 2009.

Miller, Clark A. “The dynamics of framing environmental values and policy: four models of societal processes.” Environmental values (2000): 211-233.

 

Urban Knowledge Systems

Tischa Muñoz-Erickson, Clark A. Miller, and Thaddeus Miller, “How Cities Think: Knowledge Co-Production for Urban Sustainability and Resilience,” Forests 8: 203-220. 2017.

Munoz-Erickson, Tischa A. “Co-production of knowledge–action systems in urban sustainable governance: The KASA approach.” Environmental Science & Policy 37 (2014): 182-191.

Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A., et al. “Knowledge to serve the city: Insights from an emerging knowledge-action network to address vulnerability and sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico.” Cities and the Environment (CATE) 7.1 (2014): 5.

 

Theories and Applications of Co-Production

Clark A. Miller and Carina Wyborn, “Co-Production in Global Sustainability: Histories and Theories.” Environmental Science & Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.01.016

Tischa Muñoz-Erickson, Clark A. Miller, and Thaddeus Miller, “How Cities Think: Knowledge Co-Production for Urban Sustainability and Resilience,” Forests 8: 203-220. 2017.

Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A., and Bethany B. Cutts. “Structural dimensions of knowledge-action networks for sustainability.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 18 (2016): 56-64.

Clark A. Miller, “Knowledge and Democracy: The Epistemics of Self-Governance,” in S. Hilgartner, C. A. Miller, and R. Hagendijk, eds. Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond. London: Routledge. 2015. Pp. 198-219.

Munoz-Erickson, Tischa A. “Co-production of knowledge–action systems in urban sustainable governance: The KASA approach.” Environmental Science & Policy 37 (2014): 182-191.

Miller, Clark A. “Climate science and the making of a global political order.” States of knowledge: The coproduction of science and social order (2004): 46-66.

 

Research on International Knowledge Institutions and Systems

Silke Beck, et al. “Towards A Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise: The Cases of the IPCC and IPBES,” Gaia 23(2): 80-87. 2014. A shortened version was also published as “Climate Change and the Assessment of Expert Knowledge: Does the IPCC Model Need Updating?” Bridges, vol. 40. 2014.

Clark A. Miller, “Epistemic Constitutionalism in International Governance: The Case of Climate Change.” In M. Heazle, M. Griffiths, and T. Conley, eds. Foreign Policy Challenges in the 21^st Century (London: Edward Elgar). 2009.

Clark A. Miller, “Democratization, International Knowledge Institutions, and Global Governance.” Governance 20(2): 325-357. 2007.

Clark A. Miller and Paul H. Erickson, “The Politics of Bridging Scales and Epistemologies: Science and Democracy in Global Environmental Governance,” in Walt Reid, Fikret Berkes, Tom Wilbanks, Doris Capistrano, eds., Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment (Washington: Island Press), pp. 297-314. 2006.

Clark A. Miller, “’An Effective Instrument of Peace:’ Scientific Cooperation as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1938-1950,” Osiris. Vol. 21, Science, Technology, and International Affairs. pp. 133-160. 2006.

Clark A. Miller, “Science and Democracy in a Globalizing World: Challenges for American Foreign Policy,” Science and Public Policy. Vol. 32(3): 174-186. 2005.

Clark A. Miller, “The Design and Management of International Scientific Assessments: Lessons from the Climate Regime,” in Alex Farrell and Jill Jaeger, eds., Assessments of Regional and Global Environmental Risks: Designing Processes for the Effective Use of Science in Decisionmaking (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future), 2005.

Miller, Clark A. “Climate science and the making of a global political order.” States of knowledge: The coproduction of science and social order (2004): 46-66.

Miller, Clark. “Resisting empire: Globalism, relocalization, and the politics of knowledge.” Earthly politics: Local and global in environmental governance (2004): 81-102.

Miller, Clark A. “Challenges in the application of science to global affairs: Contingency, trust, and moral order.” Changing the atmosphere: Expert knowledge and environmental governance 478 (2001).

Miller, Clark A. “Scientific internationalism in American foreign policy: The case of meteorology, 1947-1958.” Changing the atmosphere: expert knowledge and environmental governance(2001): 167-218.

 

Public and Policy Knowledges and Ways of Knowing in Democracy

Clark A. Miller, “Knowledge and Democracy: The Epistemics of Self-Governance,” in S. Hilgartner, C. A. Miller, and R. Hagendijk, eds. Science and Democracy: Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond. London: Routledge. 2015. Pp. 198-219.

Clark A. Miller, “Civic Epistemologies: Constituting Knowledge and Order in Political Communities.” Sociology Compass. Vol. 2(6): 1896-1919. 2008.

Kristin Eschenfelder and Clark A. Miller, “Examining the Role of Web Site Information in Facilitating Different Citizen-Government Interactions: A Case Study of State Chronic Wasting Disease Web Sites,” Government Information Quarterly 24(1), pp. 64-88. 2007.

Clark A. Miller, “New Civic Epistemologies of Quantification: Making Sense of Local and Global Indicators of Sustainability,” Science, Technology & Human Values 30(3): 403-432, 2005.

Karen Bandhauer, Julie Curti, and Clark A. Miller, “Challenges to Regulatory Harmonization and Standard-Setting: The Case of Environmental Accounting in the US and Canada,” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Vol. 7(2): 177-194. 2005.

Miller, Clark A. “Interrogating the civic epistemology of American democracy: stability and instability in the 2000 US presidential election.” Social Studies of Science 34.4 (2004): 501-530.