Meta-analysis on Stakeholder Engagement in the Co-Production of Knowledge for Environmental Decision-making

This dataset corresponds to a meta-analysis to examine the peer-reviewed scholarship on stakeholder engagement in co-production processes in environmental decision-making.

The dataset was developed by searching keywords, abstracts, and titles in Scopus on three key themes: co-production, transdisciplinary, and community-based participatory research. A total of 709 publications were reviewed, from which 144 met the selection criterion. The 144 articles constitute this dataset. They pertain to articles published between January 2005 and June 2020.

The data includes information on the following topics:

Number of unique case studies reported

The projects’ time span

When stakeholder engagement activities occur during the project cycle

Are stakeholders (non-university researchers) an author

Geographic region of project

Environmental issues addressed

Geographic scale of project 

Types of stakeholders engaged 

How stakeholders were engaged

What output resulted from stakeholder engagement

Approach to stakeholder engagement

Factors that enabled stakeholder engagement

Barriers or challenges to engagement

Societal impacts associated with stakeholder engagement

Direct evidence of societal impacts of stakeholder engagement

The methods and analysis are presented in "Stakeholder Engagement in the Co-Production of Knowledge for Environmental Decision-making," which was submitted for publication in 2022 to the Journal World Development. A draft of the manuscript can be provided upon request to authors.