Stakeholder engagement has become a watchword for environmental scientists to assert the societal relevance of their projects to funding agencies. In water research based on computer simulation modelling, stakeholder engagement has attracted interest as a means to overcome low uptake of new tools for water management. An increasingly accepted view is that more and better stakeholder involvement in research projects will lead to increased adoption of the modelling tools created by scientists in water management. However, we cast doubt on this view by drawing attention to how the freedom of stakeholder organizations to adopt new scientific modelling tools in their regular practices is circumscribed by the societal context. We use a modified concept of co-production in an analysis of a case of scientific research on drought in the UK to show how relationships between actors in the drought governance space influence the uptake of scientific modelling tools. The analysis suggests an explanation of why stakeholder engagement with one scientific project led to one output (data) getting adopted by stakeholders while another output (modelling tools) attracted no discernible interest. Our main objective is to improve the understanding of the limitations to stakeholder engagement as a means of increasing societal uptake of scientific research outputs.

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利益相关者参与并不能保证影响：基于模型的干旱研究的合作生产论观点。


利益相关者参与已成为环境科学家向资助机构断言其项目的社会相关性的口号。在基于计算机模拟建模的水研究中，利益相关者的参与作为克服水管理新工具采用率低的一种手段引起了人们的兴趣。越来越多的人接受的观点是，利益相关者更多更好地参与研究项目将导致更多地采用科学家在水资源管理中创建的建模工具。然而，我们通过提请注意利益相关者组织在其常规实践中采用新的科学建模工具的自由如何受到社会背景的限制，对这一观点表示怀疑。我们在对英国干旱科学研究案例的分析中使用了修改后的共同生产概念，以展示干旱治理空间中参与者之间的关系如何影响科学建模工具的采用。该分析解释了为什么利益相关者参与一个科学项目导致​​一项产出（数据）被利益相关者采用，而另一项产出（建模工具）却没有引起明显的兴趣。我们的主要目标是提高对利益相关者参与局限性的理解，以此作为提高社会对科学研究成果的吸收的一种手段。