scholarly journals Building optimism at the environmental science-policy-practice interface through the study of bright spots

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Cvitanovic ◽  
Alistair J. Hobday
Keyword(s):  
Science Policy ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Bright Spots

scholarly journals Navigating wicked water governance in the “solutionscape” of science, policy, practice, and participation

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Fallon ◽  
Bruce A. Lankford ◽  
Derek Weston
Keyword(s):  
Science Policy ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Policy Practice

Reflections on a boom: Perceptions of energy development impacts in the Bakken oil patch inform environmental science & policy priorities

2017 ◽  
Vol 599-600 ◽  
pp. 1993-2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devan Allen McGranahan ◽  
Felix N. Fernando ◽  
Meghan L.E. Kirkwood
Keyword(s):  
Science Policy ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Energy Development

scholarly journals The relevance of science-policy-practice dialogue. Exploring the urban climate resilience governance in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ombretta Caldarice ◽  
Nicola Tollin ◽  
Maria Pizzorni
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Italian Case

AbstractThe concept of resilience has been developed for over 40 years in different disciplines. The academic discussion on defining resilience is thriving to create interdisciplinary understandings and meanings. Simultaneously, resilience has firmly entered into planning practice to address vulnerabilities and cities' exposure facing to present and future hazards particularly related to climate change effects. In the last twenty years, a growing number of cities are adopting local climate actions, and urban resilience is also gradually a crucial part of international and national policies worldwide. Despite the increasing attention to urban resilience, its implementation at the local scale and the required increasing ambition are still lagging, also due to a lack of dialogue among researchers (the scientific level), policy-makers (the normative level) and practitioners (the operational level). Following the 2018 CitiesIPCC Research and Action Agenda recommendations, this paper contributes to improving understanding barriers, opportunities, and needs for science-policy-practice dialogue for urban climate resilience. The paper analyses the urban climate resilient strategiesstrategies of the Italian metropolitan cities, concluding that a science-policy-practice dialogue is lacking in implementing evidence-based climate change resilience policies and actions actions at the local scale. Starting from the Italian case study, the paper suggests an iterative process to unlock the science-policy-practice dialogue for contributing to operationalise urban climate resilience fostering thanks to a multiscalar governance approach.

scholarly journals Argumentation schemes: From genetics to international relations to environmental science policy to AI ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Green
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Argumentation Schemes ◽  
Argument Schemes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Ai Ethics

Argumentation schemes have played a key role in our research projects on computational models of natural argument over the last decade. The catalogue of schemes in Walton, Reed and Macagno’s 2008 book, Argumentation Schemes, served as our starting point for analysis of the naturally occurring arguments in written text, i.e., text in different genres having different types of author, audience, and subject domain (genetics, international relations, environmental science policy, AI ethics), for different argument goals, and for different possible future applications. We would often first attempt to analyze the arguments in our corpora in terms of those schemes, then adapt schemes as needed for the goals of the project, and in some cases implement them for use in computational models. Among computational researchers, the main interest in argumentation schemes has been for use in argument mining by applying machine learning methods to existing argument corpora. In contrast, a primary goal of our research has been to learn more about written arguments themselves in various contemporary fields. Our approach has been to manually analyze semantics, discourse structure, argumentation, and rhetoric in texts. Another goal has been to create sharable digital corpora containing the results of our studies. Our approach has been to define argument schemes for use by human corpus annotators or for use in logic programs for argument mining. The third goal is to design useful computer applications based upon our studies, such as argument diagramming systems that provide argument schemes as building blocks. This paper describes each of the various projects: the methods, the argument schemes that were identified, and how they were used. Then a synthesis of the results is given with a discussion of open issues.

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