scholarly journals Is There a Case for Recognising Taiwan at the International Science-Policy Interface for Climate Change?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Mabon ◽  
Wan-Yu Shih
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Science Policy Interface

scholarly journals Turning science into policy: challenges and experiences from the science–policy interface

2005 ◽  
Vol 360 (1454) ◽  
pp. 471-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T Watson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Ozone Depletion ◽  
Stratospheric Ozone ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Stratospheric Ozone Depletion ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Science Policy Interface

This paper discusses key issues in the science–policy interface. It stresses the importance of linking the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity to the Millennium Development Goals and to issues of immediate concern to policy-makers such as the economy, security and human health. It briefly discusses the process of decision-making and how the scientific and policy communities have successfully worked together on global environmental issues such as stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change, and the critical role of international assessments in providing the scientific basis for informed policy at the national and international level. The paper also discusses the drivers of global environmental change, the importance of constructing plausible futures, indicators of change, the biodiversity 2010 target and how environmental issues such as loss of biodiversity, stratospheric ozone depletion, land degradation, water pollution and climate change cannot be addressed in isolation because they are strongly interconnected and there are synergies and trade-offs among the policies, practices and technologies that are used to address these issues individually.

scholarly journals Reporting marine climate change impacts: Lessons from the science-policy interface

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 114-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Frost ◽  
John Baxter ◽  
Paul Buckley ◽  
Stephen Dye ◽  
Bethany Stoker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Science Policy Interface ◽  
Marine Climate

scholarly journals From marine climate change impacts to marine legislation: lessons from the science-policy interface

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Frost ◽  
John Baxter ◽  
Paul Buckley ◽  
Stephen Dye ◽  
Bethany Stoker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Body ◽  
Scientific Integrity ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Science Policy Interface ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Marine Climate

In recent decades, the body of evidence on climate change including that for marine impacts has grown rapidly leading to a number of challenges, including the need to collate and summarise a large volume of information and to be able to analyse and interpret complex messages for a wide variety of stakeholders from scientists to policy-makers and the wider public. The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) has been functioning at the science-policy interface for over ten years collating, assessing and interpreting information on marine climate change impacts. This experience, and the fact that the MCCIP model is being more widely adopted nationally and globally, provides an opportunity to look at lessons learned in working in the science-policy interface with a focus on the Scientific Integrity and Independence Risk Management Scheme (SIIRMS). This scheme was developed by MCCIP as a framework for providing climate information and advice to policy and decision-makers. Examples are provided of the impact of MCCIP on policy and the development of marine legislation along with other examples of how marine biodiversity information being utilized for policy needs.

scholarly journals The Science–Policy Interface as a Discourse Network: Finland’s Climate Change Policy 2002–2015

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kukkonen ◽  
Tuomas Ylä-Anttila
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Science Policy Interface ◽  
Discourse Coalitions ◽  
Scientific Arguments ◽  
Over Time

In this article, we argue that the science–policy interface can be understood as a discourse network constituted by discursive interaction between scientific organizations and other actors that both use scientific arguments in conjunction with other policy arguments. We use discourse network analysis to investigate the climate change policy process in Finland between 2002 and 2015, focusing on the role of and relationships between scientific actors and arguments in the discourse networks. Our data consist of policy actors’ written testimonies on two law proposals, the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (2002) and the enactment of the Finnish Climate Law (2015). Our results show that two competing discourse coalitions have influenced the development of climate change policy in the 2000s. In 2002, the dominant coalition was economic, prioritizing economic growth over climate change mitigation. In 2015, the climate coalition that argued for ambitious mitigation measures became dominant. The majority of scientific actors were part of the dominant economy coalition in 2002 and part of the dominant ecology coalition in 2015. The centrality of scientific arguments increased over time, and both discourse coalitions used them progressively more. These developments reflect the increasingly central position of science in Finnish climate policymaking. We contribute to the literature on the science–policy interface by operationalizing the interface as a set of connections in a discourse network and by showing how the analysis of discourse networks and their properties can help us understand the shifts in the role of science in policymaking over time.

Sedimentation–upwelling: a model for the science–policy interface in the case of climate change and California water

Water Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Michael Kiparsky
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
California Water ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Science Policy Interface

This paper sets forth a framework to describe the science–policy interface. The “sedimentation–upwelling model” is a two-part process through which scientific information gradually becomes part of resource managers' and policymakers' agendas. In this paper, sedimentation refers to a gradual process through which scientific information slowly permeates a policymaking body, often slowly and through multiple sources. Upwelling is a process by which policymakers, having become aware of scientific concepts in a general way though sedimentation, independently devise policy actions consistent with the scientific body of knowledge. The framework was tested in the case of climate change science and California water policy through an analysis of historical data and interviews with key players on the science and policy sides of this issue. A remarkably consistent scientific message over the course of fifteen years before 2003 was not followed by corresponding changes in water management, as a “linear model” in which policymakers act directly on scientists recommendations would predict. Instead, both sedimentation and upwelling operated in this case and the importance of the linear pathway was minimal. Viewing science in the context of the upwelling-sedimentation model does not imply that science is ultimately any less influential on policy. On the contrary, this work suggests that policymakers rely on general, widespread cues that come both directly from scientists and through intermediaries and that these cues can influence policy choices in important, but often indirect ways.

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