Conceptualizing Coproduced Climate Research as Care: Practical Lessons Learned WithWomen Farmland-Owners in the Central Midwest United States
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2025-01-02
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This article's team of interdisciplinary researchers and conservation educator-practitioners learned with, and from, a group of women farmland-owners regarding how to conceptualize coproduced climate research by putting “care” at the center—care for the soil, for relationships, for data. We outline the creation and evolution of a storytelling-based conservation program that allowed our diverse group to discover how the language of care could integrate climate analysis, conservation, and relationship-building to foster tangible solutions. As a result of the project, the women landowners took actions that supported social-environmental resilience—from planting cover crops to fostering watershed/neighborhood relationships. Our diverse group of women landowners and researchers had very different experiences with conservation and often very different views on climate change itself, but, through storytelling and the language of care, we not only coproduced knowledge but also created relationships and action. This article outlines specific practices for how to inflect a coproduced process for climate resilience with practices that promote care and yield action projects.
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This article is published as Shenk, Linda, Jean Eells, William J. Gutowski, Kristie Franz, and Danielle Robinson. "Conceptualizing Coproduced Climate Research as Care: Practical Lessons Learned With Women Farmland‐Owners in the Central Midwest United States." Climate Resilience and Sustainability 4, no. 1 (2025): e70005. doi:10.1002/cli2.70005.
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© 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This research was funded by the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at The University of Iowa. Additional support was provided by the US Department of Energy Office of Science Award DE-SC0016438; Grant Number NA23OAR4310629 from the Climate Program Office at NOAA; Iowa State University internal funding through its Climate Smart program.