Article
Political Science
Claire Dupont, Jeffrey Rosamond, Bishoy L. Zaki
Summary: This article provides a historical overview of the knowledge exchange architecture for climate policy in the EU and investigates its connection with the politicisation of climate change. The study identifies links between the evolution of formal and informal aspects of the knowledge exchange system and shifts in politicisation during different periods. It finds that when politicisation created a negative or constraining context, informal knowledge exchange closed, making it difficult for multidisciplinary scientific knowledge to enter the process. However, formal knowledge exchange remained in place even under constraining conditions. The article offers a nuanced assessment of the relationship between politicisation and scientific-policy knowledge exchange, enhancing our understanding of both climate change politicisation and knowledge exchange architectures.
POLICY AND POLITICS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Zhanyun Wang, Sam Adu-Kumi, Miriam L. Diamond, Ramon Guardans, Tom Harner, Agustin Harte, Natsuko Kajiwara, Jana Klanova, Jianguo Liu, Estefania Gastaldello Moreira, Derek C. G. Muir, Noriyuki Suzuki, Victorine Pinas, Timo Seppala, Roland Weber, Bo Yuan
Summary: The Stockholm Convention is crucial in addressing global threats posed by persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Although it successfully identifies new POPs, implementing the convention at the national level remains challenging, particularly for low- and middle-income countries. This analysis aims to identify and recommend the research and scientific support necessary for the convention's timely implementation, providing practical guidance and recommendations for sustaining scientific support.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Alexandra Bell, Doris Klein, Jakob Rieser, Tanja Kraus, Michael Thiel, Stefan Dech
Summary: Political decisions often have unclear impacts and can result in unintended negative consequences. Remote sensing is a powerful tool to provide objective and systematic spatial information for evidence-based decision making. Most studies reviewed focus on problem identification and policy impact assessment. To strengthen the use of remote sensing for policy-relevant studies, the concept of the policy cycle can be used to identify future requirements.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kerry A. Waylen, Kirsty L. Blackstock, Keith B. Matthews, Alba Juarez-Bourke, Alice Hague, Doug Wardell-Johnson, Dave Miller, Zora Kovacic, Thomas Volker, Angela Guimaraes Pereira, Mario Giampietro
Summary: Post-Normal Science (PNS) highlights the need for scientists and policy-makers to co-analyse and learn together. However, the roles and implications for scientific experts when interacting with policy-makers are not well understood. This article reflects on scientific experts' experiences in the interdisciplinary H2020 MAGIC project and suggests the importance of recognizing the plural roles expected of experts and the constraints of science-policy interactions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
Article
Economics
Richard Fischer, Denis B. Karcher
Summary: Recent publications are critical of the impact of forest governance research on halting tropical deforestation. They suggest increased engagement between scientists and decision-makers to enhance research impact. However, current theories of science communication indicate a trade-off between engagement with decision-makers and researchers' independence, which hinders analytical science. Our commentary examines how recent publications address this dilemma and raises the question of whether enhanced impact justifies or necessitates greater engagement. We find that the assumption linking more impact to more direct engagement is predominantly based on essays, comments, or reviews rather than empirical evidence. In a quantitative empirical evaluation using existing data, we demonstrate that increased direct engagement does not necessarily lead to greater impact. We conclude that further empirical research is needed to assess researchers' independence under different modes of engagement, taking into account various policy contexts, levels, and stages of research projects. Standardized measures should be employed to evaluate the success of engagement strategies. In the meantime, we provide recommendations to navigate the engagement-independence dilemma, including raising awareness within the scientific community, specifying researchers' roles clearly and transparently, involving independent scientific reviewers, diversifying funding sources, and considering the power and interests of policymakers as study objects and research partners simultaneously.
FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Melissa Arias, Amy Hinsley, E. J. Milner-Gulland
Summary: The study highlights that decision makers tend to prioritize evidence involving foreign actors and commercial purposes over local and non-commercial evidence when addressing illegal wildlife trade. They also tend to favor events that are closer to their own reality in terms of spatial and temporal dimensions.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Tyreen Kapoor, Matthew Falconer, Jenna Hutchen, Alana R. Westwood, Nathan Young, Vivian M. Nguyen
Summary: This study interviewed nine knowledge exchange (KE) practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) to understand their roles, strategies, definitions of success, and enabling conditions in KE work. The study found that CFS KE practitioners act as knowledge brokers and use a cyclical KE strategy with outreach as the most common activity. The study also highlights the importance of relationships and trust in KE work and suggests adopting qualitative evaluations to assess the full impact of KE work.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mathieu Saujot, Thomas Le Gallic, Henri Waisman
Summary: This study explores the implications of integrating lifestyle changes into climate mitigation pathways, highlighting the contributions to scenario production practices and the science-policy process. The analysis discusses the benefits of exploring lifestyle changes in scenario production and the challenges it poses to the reliability and policy relevance of pathway methodologies. Overcoming these challenges can lead to more policy-relevant pathways, emphasizing existing approaches and their limitations in the literature.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hiroyuki Kano, Takehiko I. Hayashi
Summary: The study establishes a framework for scientists and policymakers to handle evidence in policymaking, focusing on five perspectives including methodological rigorousness, consistency, proximity, social appropriateness, and legitimacy. It explores how these perspectives interact through three phases of scientific investigation and political institutionalization, encouraging shifts in perspectives between different institutionalization phases. A case study on mercury pollution demonstrates how the framework serves as a checklist for comprehensive evidence evaluation, providing specific guidance for evidence-based policymaking and implementation.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jemma-Anne Lonsdale, Andrew B. Gill, Khatija Alliji, Silvana N. R. Birchenough, Sylvia Blake, Holly Buckley, Charlotte Clarke, Stacey Clarke, Nathan Edmonds, Leila Fonseca, Freya Goodsir, Andrew Griffith, Adrian Judd, Rachel Mulholland, Joe Perry, Karema Randall, Daniel Wood
Summary: The article reviews the fundamental aspects of effective marine management, emphasizing the role of science and scientific evidence in informing marine policy and decision making. Recommendations are made based on the analysis of current marine management practices in the UK, with a focus on four marine sectors. The importance of increasing data accessibility, hypothesis-driven environmental monitoring, and engaging with the public for a shared understanding and vision are highlighted.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shivdas Virk, Andrew Papworth, Sarah Papworth
Summary: This study used a mixed-methods approach to understand decision making in biodiversity conservation. Through interviews and surveys with conservation professionals, the study explored decision types and factors that influence them. The findings provide valuable insights for academics seeking to support conservation decision making.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Henrik Osterblom, Carl Folke, Juan Rocha, Jan Bebbington, Robert Blasiak, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Elizabeth R. Selig, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, Frida Bengtsson, Beatrice Crona, Radhika Gupta, Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Karolin A. Johansson, Andrew Merrie, Shinnosuke Nakayama, Guillermo Ortuno Crespo, Johan Rockstrom, Lisen Schultz, Madlen Sobkowiak, Peter Sogaard Jorgensen, Jessica Spijkers, Max Troell, Patricia Villarrubia-Gomez, Jane Lubchenco
Summary: This study describes how scientists collaborated with the world's top seafood companies to achieve science-based and systemic transformations for ocean stewardship. Through collaborative processes, solutions were co-created, leading to increased knowledge, trust, policy influence, and organizational development towards ocean protection.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yuya Kajikawa
Summary: This study focuses on the role of bibliometric analysis in evidence-based policymaking and discusses the application of scientometrics in this field. By using hydrogen energy technologies as a case study, four propositions are derived, emphasizing the importance of strict distinction, relevant analysis, multidisciplinary expertise, and a knowledge system in policymaking.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Cara Steger, Julia A. Klein, Robin S. Reid, Sandra Lavorel, Catherine Tucker, Kelly A. Hopping, Rob Marchant, Tara Teel, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Tsechoe Dorjii, Greg Greenwood, Robert Huber, Karim-Aly Kassam, David Kreuer, Anne Nolinn, Aaron Russello, Julia L. Sharp, Mateja Smid Hribar, Jessica P. R. Thorn, Gordon Grants, Mohammed Mahdi, Martha Morenou, Daniel Waiswav
Summary: Flexibility and collaborative spirit are highly valued skills in SWS, and different respondents have differing perspectives on barriers to successful SWS implementation. A toolbox of 20 best practices can be utilized to overcome barriers and enhance the societal and scientific impacts of SWS projects.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Aoi Sugimoto, Hidetomo Tajima, Takuma Sugaya, Shingo Watari
Summary: Many countries have governmental fisheries science organizations that play a critical role in achieving ocean sustainability. Understanding the interface of science, policy, and public interest around fisheries is important for effective knowledge exchange and co-creating desired futures. This study focuses on Japan as a case study to illuminate this interface and guide better outcomes in the UN Decade of Ocean Science.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
