Guiding the guides: Doing 'Constructive Innovation Assessment' as part of innovating forest ecosystem service governance

Abstract: While participatory methods are not unknown in the ecosystem services community, there is unused potential in co-creating ecosystem service governance innovation. We argue that participatory methods in ecosystem service governance can be further improved and ingrained into the way of working by incorporating insights from innovation studies. In the InnoForESt project, which revolved around innovations in forest ecosystem services, the task of "Constructive Innovation Assessment" (CINA) was to systematically transfer strategic knowledge into six local innovation processes. We outline the core features of this approach and describe the experiences we made in accompanying the implementation of the approach in the six cases. As a core feature of CINA, realistic scenarios were developed in each innovation process, aiming to formulate contextualised innovation options. Because stakeholders are the linchpin of all efforts, they must be able and willing to do something with these options.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Ecosystem Services (2022) 58

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Aukes, Ewert Johannes ; Stegmaier, Peter ; Schleyer, Christian

Further information

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101482
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2405071410526.541505524754
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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