While societies are facing complex problems involving multiple stakeholders and interdependencies, interest in collaborative governance as a potential solution is rising. Research-based interventions in policy, planning, and management processes have been introduced to test different approaches and tools for collaboration. The nature of these processes, tools, and approaches varies substantially, as do researchers’ cultures of making contributions to and in collaboration with society. This paper outlines the various possibilities and means for researchers to intervene in and explore steps towards collaborative governance. It utilises literature-based descriptions of potential roles for researchers and draws on insight from Finnish collaborative governance interventions in environmental decision-making. The conventional role of researchers as providers of knowledge was complemented with roles needed to foster favourable conditions for collaboration. Tensions regarding these roles show that collaborative governance requires a reflexive position from researchers, enabling them to adapt their ideas about collaboration to specific governance settings.

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协作治理干预中的研究人员角色

虽然社会面临着涉及多个利益相关者和相互依赖的复杂问题，但人们对协作治理作为潜在解决方案的兴趣正在上升。在政策、规划和管理过程中引入了基于研究的干预措施，以测试不同的协作方法和工具。这些过程、工具和方法的性质千差万别，研究人员为社会做出贡献和与社会合作的文化也是如此。本文概述了研究人员介入和探索协作治理步骤的各种可能性和手段。它利用基于文献的对研究人员潜在角色的描述，并借鉴了芬兰在环境决策中的协作治理干预措施的见解。研究人员作为知识提供者的传统角色与为合作创造有利条件所需的角色相辅相成。关于这些角色的紧张关系表明，协作治理需要研究人员采取反思性立场，使他们能够调整他们关于协作的想法以适应特定的治理环境。