Experimental environmental governance: coproduction and orchestration of transformative change (EE-GOCO) (2023–2027)

Experimental governance seeks to produce policy relevant learning and policy change as a response to the post-normal nature of environmental concerns, often without formal integration into policy processes. This has meant widening participation in policy processes beyond scientists and policy elites and thus experimental governance and knowledge coproduction within it have predominantly been studied in aspirational and instrumental terms. Yet their de facto realization has great bearing on both theory and practice and thus merits focused research attention. EE-GoCo consortium does this through its exceptional access to one of the most widespread experimental environmental governance approaches, transition management and transition arenas. The complementary competencies in the consortium allow it to study the phenomena as governance experiments, as participative arrangements; in terms of how outputs and impacts come into being; and as sites for further experiments.
 

Funding: Research Council of Finland