Dear colleagues,

We are excited to share our second quarterly e-newsletter with you. (If you did not receive the first quarterly e-news, please let us know, and you can view it here.) We hope that you are managing well despite the coronavirus pandemic.

In this issue, we present the first post in our new co-production blog series, and invite you to share your own stories. We are also interested in receiving stories about how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting your work. Finally, we want you to be the first to know that we are working on a special journal issue on co-production in land system science and will be looking for contributing authors. Stay tuned!

Please also remember to send us news, jobs, and events for this quarterly e-newsletter, as well as pass along feedback and proposals by email to coproduction@glp.earth. The deadline for submissions for the next newsletter is 24 August.

Your WG Coordinators,
Isabelle Providoli
Albrecht Ehrensperger
Narcisa Pricope
Jean-Christophe Castella

Christine Ornetsmüller provides three practical tips for the use of co-production in land system science that emerged as a collective result from the immersive workshop session "Co-production of knowledge in landscape restoration" at the 4th Open Science Meeting of GLP in 2019.

We invite you to comment on the post by logging in at glp.earth and clicking the “Add new comment” link at the bottom of the post. Inspired to share your own personal story related to co-production in land system science? You can submit it to us for inclusion on the blog and in a future newsletter.

We would like to know how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting co-production in your projects? Did you have to postpone or cancel co-production components? Have you replaced physical presence with tele-conferences? Have digital tools been able to bridge challenges and what are their limitations? Contact us by email to share your recent experiences and to discuss options for publishing them in our blog or in a later issue of this newsletter.

The report Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production sheds light on what it takes to co-produce urban knowledge through transdisciplinary research across different scientific disciplines and with societal actors. It shows how crucial such approaches are for advancing sustainable development in African cities.

The report was drafted by a team of early-career African scientists funded through the Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa programme (LIRA2030), which is run by the ISC and the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), with financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Shuaib Lwasa was an editor on the report, and Isabelle Providoli reviewed it.

A new series of webinars hosted by SHAPE-ID will run over the coming months around the integration of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in inter- and transdisciplinary research. Some of these events will stage broader conversations, with invited panellists from the SHAPE-ID community, consortium and Expert Panel. Others will focus on SHAPE-ID project results and on how to increase the uptake of recommendations from the project.

The first webinar, "Interdisciplinarity in Times of Crisis: Why the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Matter," is already available online.

To be notified about upcoming webinars when they are scheduled, please subscribe to the SHAPE-ID newsletter.

The International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021 will take place 13-17 September 2021 in Zürich. The conference is co-organised by td-net and USYS TdLab of ETH Zürich.

A new paper by Narcisa Pricope and colleagues looks at “Addressing integration challenges of interdisciplinary research in social-ecological systems”.

Salerno Jonathan and colleagues published an article about “Wildlife impacts and vulnerable livelihoods in a transfrontier conservation landscape” in which transdisciplinary approaches such as household surveys and community-based participatory mapping exercises were used.