Navigating the science-policy interface: Forest researcher perspectives

Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 118, P. 10 - 17

Published: Jan. 23, 2021

There is growing interest – and need among researchers research organizations to contribute societally relevant work as well demonstrate the policy impact of their research. Diverse science-policy interfaces (SPIs) aim for scientifically informed policymaking by connecting scientists with policymakers. Effective SPIs be grounded in credibility, relevance legitimacy; at same time, however, they become part complex, politicised web public policymaking. In this article we examine how forest who participate diverse context Global South navigate complexity. We apply concepts legitimacy explore tensions experience, strategies that when responding them. The based on in-depth interviews 23 highlights (i) related ensuring both political particularly led SPIs; (ii) arising from maintain credibility face contestation pressure omit critical existing policies practice also 'experts' operating within SPI. Ensuring SPI effectiveness (research impact) emerged an additional source tension. While multiple response were identified, including knowledge co-production strategic engagement key actors, some compromises, which discuss. conclude highlighting understand power relations terms planning but evaluating effective SPIs.

Language: Английский

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Towards local-parallel scenarios for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

Climate Risk Management, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 34, P. 100372 - 100372

Published: Jan. 1, 2021

Scenarios are used in climate change research to explore potential impacts, assess vulnerability, and identify adaptation options. In developing scenarios, however, there is a challenge moving between global, national, local scales way that connects complex adaptive systems meaningful ways for stakeholders. Some emulate the global parallel scenario framework of Representative Concentration Pathways, Shared Socio-economic Policy Assumptions, collecting refining expert data projections into relatively scenarios specific regions. However, such approaches can be expensive, time-consuming, privilege biophysical knowledge. Others use participatory approaches, working with people co-create based on experiential knowledge, risk perception, community aspirations. While useful, these highly localized often unable account linkages feedbacks national international processes. Here we seek overcome some challenges through combination elements from architecture, locally bridge range social issues, including political debates, land use, socio-economic inequalities. We illustrate approach case study West Coast, New Zealand, which shows credible, legitimate, relevant open up material discussions. Our methodology provides robust process best practice contexts communicates accessible textual visual boundary objects. The results provide basis further refinement application elsewhere, highlighting key methodological opportunities.

Language: Английский

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Co‐Producing Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Action for Sustainable Water Governance: Lessons from the Development of a Water Resources Decision Support System in Pernambuco, Brazil

Global Challenges, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 3(4)

Published: Oct. 25, 2018

One of the most pressing global challenges for sustainable development is freshwater management. Sustainable water governance requires interdisciplinary knowledge about environmental and social processes as well participatory strategies that bring scientists, managers, policymakers, other stakeholders together to cooperatively produce solutions, promote learning, build enduring institutional capacity. Cooperative production action designed enhance likelihood findings, models, simulations, decision support tools developed are scientifically credible, solutions-oriented, relevant management needs stakeholders' perspectives. To explore how science can be co-developed in practice, experiences an international collaboration drawn on improve local capacity manage existing future resources efficiently, sustainably, equitably State Pernambuco northeastern Brazil. Systems model simulate rainfall, reservoir management, flood forecasting allow users create, save, compare scenarios. A web-enabled system also integrate models inform climate adaptation. The lessons learned from this project, transferability approach, evaluating impacts decisions sustainability outcomes discussed.

Language: Английский

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Implementation Science for the Environment

Environmental Science & Technology, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 52(10), P. 5555 - 5560

Published: April 25, 2018

The establishment of the field implementation science was motivated by understanding that medical and health research alone is insufficient to generate better outcomes. With strong support from funding agencies for research, promotes application a structured framework or model in research-based results, specifically evidence-based practices (EBPs). Furthermore, explicit consideration given context EBP (i.e., socio-economic, political, cultural, institutional factors could affect process). Finally, monitored robust rigorous way. Today, supports conferences professional societies as well one dedicated journal numerous others with related content. goal these various activities reduce estimated, average "bench bedside" time lag 17 years uptake EBPs into routine practice. Despite similar lags impediments environmental domain, parallel environment has not (yet) emerged. Although some parallels needs opportunities can easily be drawn between domains, detailed mapping exercise needed understand which aspects applied domain either directly modified form. This would allow an accelerated development environment.

Language: Английский

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A framework for implementing evidence in policymaking: Perspectives and phases of evidence evaluation in the science-policy interaction

Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 116, P. 86 - 95

Published: Nov. 27, 2020

The use of scientific knowledge in policymaking has been a subject debate the environmental sector. An essential task for effective evidence is scientists and policymakers to share common understanding how should be produced used. purpose this study establish reference framework that enables align their sights deal with policymaking. To develop framework, we introduced five perspectives cover domains science, policy, science-policy interface as: (1) methodological rigorousness; (2) consistency; (3) proximity; (4) social appropriateness; (5) legitimacy. We then examined issues from these will transit through three phases interaction between investigation political institutionalization via: pre-institutionalization phase, which academic framing an issue was unclear; mid-institutionalization established advanced; post-institutionalization were recursively defined within evaluation system itself. encourages shift each phase institutionalization. A case on mercury pollution shows serves as checklist comprehensive evidence, provides specific guidance appropriately promotes evidence-based its implementation.

Language: Английский

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