Whether the challenge is global warming, epide­mic disease, poverty, environmental degradation, or social fragmentation, research efforts are wasted without efficient and understandable processes to create and transfer knowledge to policy makers, interested groups and communities. How to maximize the impact of scholarly research and combine it with practical knowledge already available in lay communities are key issues in a world threatened with social-ecological disasters. Making and Moving Knowledge focuses on how knowledge is created and transferred, or blocked and atrophies. It provides a rare look at what knowledge is, how different kinds of knowledge are created, and what needs to guide the vital relationship between knowledge creation and its dissemination to a variety of different audiences.

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