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Prelims

Christopher Ansell (University of California, USA)
Eva Sørensen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Jacob Torfing (Roskilde University, Denmark)

Co-Creation for Sustainability

ISBN: 978-1-80043-801-9, eISBN: 978-1-80043-798-2

Publication date: 2 August 2022

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Ansell, C., Sørensen, E. and Torfing, J. (2022), "Prelims", Co-Creation for Sustainability, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-798-220220016

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Copyright © 2022 Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this book (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode.

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Co-Creation for Sustainability

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Co-Creation for Sustainability: The UN SDGs and the Power of Local Partnership

by

Christopher Ansell

University of California, USA

Eva Sørensen

Roskilde University, Denmark

And

Jacob Torfing

Roskilde University, Denmark

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Copyright © 2022 Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited.

This work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this book (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode

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List of Figures

Figure 2.1. The Multicolored Icons Illustrating Each of the SDGs.
Figure 2.2. Interrelated Patterns of Action Promoting the SDGs.
Figure 2.3. Factors That Motivate Local Actors to Promote the SDGs.
Figure 2.4. Barriers to Local Action for the SDGs.
Figure 3.1. Rising Functional Aspiration of Networks and Partnerships.
Figure 3.2. Cocreating Public Value Outcomes.
Figure 3.3. The Four Basic Steps in the Cocreation Process.
Figure 3.4. Phases and Subphases in the Cocreation Process at a Glance.
Figure 4.1. Cocreation as a Strategy of Localization.
Figure 6.1. Power Versus Interest Grid.
Figure 6.2. Stakeholder Influence Analysis.
Figure 6.3. Different Spheres of More or Less Intense Participation.
Figure 7.1. Initiation of Cocreated Innovation.
Figure 7.2. Pushing and Pulling Cocreation toward Innovation.
Figure 7.3. Contributions to Idea Generation in Cocreated Innovation Processes.
Figure 7.4. The Design Process.
Figure 7.5. Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Innovations.
Figure 8.1. The Value of Cocreated Prototypes.
Figure 9.1. The Combination of Funding and Financing Over Time.
Figure 9.2. How Blended Finance Works.
Figure 10.1. The Problem-driven Iterative Adaptation Model.
Figure 11.1. The Dynamic Relationship between Process, Impact, and Evaluation.
Figure 11.2. Formative and Summative Evaluation Compared with Developmental Evaluation.
Figure 12.1. The Virtuous Accountability Circle.
Figure 12.2. Four Key Accountability Audiences.
Figure 13.1. Interactional Leadership Production.
Figure 13.2. Building and Leadership Capacity.
Figure 14.1. The Triangular Space Circumscribing a New Sustainable Economics.
Figure 14.2. The Doughnut Model.
Figure 14.3. Linking Cocreation Arenas With Elected Government Through Metagovernance or Hybrid Democracy.

List of Tables

Table 2.1. What Global and National Levels of Governance Can Do to Stimulate Local Promotion of the SDGs.
Table 5.1. U.N. Platforms Related to the SDGs.
Table 5.2. Platform Tools for Facilitating Cocreation.
Table 5.3. Recommendations for Achieving Positive Platform Effects.
Table 6.1. Overview of Participant-Level Empowerment Strategies.
Table 6.2. Behavioral Recommendations for Conflict Mediators.
Table 7.1. List of Recommendations for How to Spur Cocreated Innovation.
Table 8.1. Modes of Prototyping.
Table 8.2. How to Support, Scale and Diffuse Cocreated Experiments.
Table 9.1. The Conceptual Distinction Between Funding and Financing.
Table 9.2. How to Write a Good Early-Stage Funding Application.
Table 9.3. Key Components of a Good and Persuasive Business Case.
Table 10.1. An Adaptive Cocreation Diagnostic.
Table 10.2. Strategies for Promoting Social Learning.
Table 11.1. The Collaboration Checklist.
Table 11.2. Evaluating Collaborative Platforms Supporting Cocreation Processes.
Table 11.3. Conditions for Learning in Collective Impact.
Table 12.1. Potential Positive Impacts of Formal Accountability Mechanisms.
Table 12.2. Potential Negative Impacts of Formal Accountability Mechanisms.
Table 12.3. Important Actor Properties in Social and Informal Accountability.
Table 12.4. Recommendations for Strengthening Accountability of Cocreation Arenas.
Table 13.1. Five Key Leadership Functions.
Table 13.2. Skills and Competencies Important for Leaders of Cocreation.
Table 13.3. Recommendations for Cocreation Leadership.
Table 14.1. Comparing Deliberative MiniPublics and Citizen Juries With Cocreation.

Preface

We have written this book out of a sense of urgency and hope. The threat to the sustainability of our natural and socioeconomic environment is now dire. Yet we also find a sense of hope in the fact that 193 United Nations member states came together in 2015 to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), establishing a strong agenda for tackling our most difficult global challenges. We have a long way to go to achieve the SDGs and we are now almost halfway to the Agenda 2030 finish line. Rather than becoming disillusioned, however, the gap between current results and the ultimate goals should motivate us to rethink and adjust our strategies and methods. Finding great merit in the partnership and collaboration values inscribed in Goal 17, this book advances cocreation as a strategy for accelerating our efforts to meet the goals. Cocreation can help to harness the power of local partnerships for achieving the ambitious 2030 Agenda.

The world is a much different place today than when we initially imagined this project. The COVID-19 pandemic has raced through the world and caused hardship and turmoil for millions of people. The pandemic has been detrimental to the implementation of the SDGs, derailing ambitious projects all over the world. Yet there are also hopeful reports that COVID-19 has brought people together in new ways and accentuated their understanding that the world confronts common challenges that call for united action. As the pandemic hopefully wanes, the agenda set out in this book becomes even more timely and relevant.

This book itself results from a sustained effort at cocreation that has spanned the world and bridged between academics and practitioners. Throughout this project, we consulted three experts – Pedro Conceição, Priya Gajraj, and Jens Wandel – affiliated with the United Nations. They have been a source of inspiration and ideas about how to implement a cocreation agenda. Pedro, Priya, and Jens have all provided comments that have guided the planning of book and greatly improved the content of individual chapters. We are grateful for their generous inputs, but note that the three authors take sole responsibility for the ideas and arguments put forth in this book.

This book is written with a specific audience in mind: changemakers around the world who take upon themselves the mission of mobilizing citizens and stakeholders to cocreate innovative SDG solutions. The book is intended to be read and utilized as a guidebook stimulating critical reflections on how to design and use cocreation as a lever for addressing the challenges of global sustainability. We hope that the book can be useful for individual changemakers, as well as for the purpose of training potential cocreators in the noble art of doing together what individuals cannot do alone.

We extend our thanks to our editor David Mulvaney at Emerald for his support and understanding during the writing of this book. Thanks also to Head of Department Peter Kragelund, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University for comments to several chapters and support for the Golden Open Access publishing that makes the digital version of the book freely available to everyone everywhere. We also thank the Peder Sather program at the University of California, Berkeley, for project support.

On a final note, we are pleased that a large research grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark will allow us to continue the work that we have initiated in this book and contribute to the growing research on how collaborative governance can support the realization of the SDGs. We are looking forward to collaborating with people all over the world to further explore the factors that may support the cocreation of the green transition.

Chris, Eva, and Jacob

Berkeley, USA, and Roskilde, Denmark

January 2022

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