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Communication between forest scientists and forest policy-makers in Europe - A survey on both sides of the science/policy interface

FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2008)

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FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

卷 10, 期 3, 页码 183-194

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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2007.10.001

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science/policy interface; communication; forest science; forest policy; Europe

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Economics Environmental Studies Forestry

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improving communication in the science/policy interface has received increased attention from scientists and policy-makers in recent years. This paper discusses recent science/policy interface literature and reports on the results of two surveys, sent out to forest scientists and forest policy-makers, asking them to evaluate communication in the forest science/policy interface in Europe. The questionnaires are based on a model of the communication process between scientists and policy-makers which was developed for this study, comprising information sources, channels, types and topics of information. The results indicate that policy-makers and scientists largely share the same ideas on how they should communicate with each other. However, the results also show that policy-makers' expectations from science differ from scientists' estimations on what policy-makers consider relevant topics of scientific information. Another result of the study is that scientists and policy-makers give largely the same suggestions for improving communication in the science/policy interface. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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