Capacity-Building: New Visions for Science Policy

The International Year of Crystallography 2014 (IYCr2014) Legacy conference, held in Rabat, Morocco in April 2015 under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohamed VI, reviewed the accomplishments achieved during IYCr2014, with a forward-looking focus sustaining momentum and building on past success. The President of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), the Director of the Science Policy and Capacity Building Division of UNESCO, the President of the World Academy of Science, and the Director of the International Council for Science–—Regional Office for Africa signed a letter of commitment and invited IUPAC to endorse the actions and goals set out in the IYCr2014 Legacy Resolution.

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Building capacity for the science-policy interface on biodiversity and ecosystem services: Activities, fellows, outcomes, and neglected capacity building needs

Earth System Governance ◽

10.1016/j.esg.2020.100050 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 100050 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Karin M. Gustafsson ◽

Isabel Díaz-Reviriego ◽

Esther Turnhout

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Science Policy ◽

Building Capacity ◽

Science Policy Interface

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Experiments in engagement: Designing public engagement with science and technology for capacity building

Public Understanding of Science ◽

10.1177/0963662515620970 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 26 (6) ◽

pp. 634-649 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Cynthia Selin ◽

Kelly Campbell Rawlings ◽

Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone ◽

Jathan Sadowski ◽

Carlo Altamirano Allende ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Capacity Building ◽

Science Policy ◽

Public Engagement ◽

Large Scale ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Technology Analysis ◽

Public Engagement With Science

Public engagement with science and technology is now widely used in science policy and communication. Touted as a means of enhancing democratic discussion of science and technology, analysis of public engagement with science and technology has shown that it is often weakly tied to scientific governance. In this article, we suggest that the notion of capacity building might be a way of reframing the democratic potential of public engagement with science and technology activities. Drawing on literatures from public policy and administration, we outline how public engagement with science and technology might build citizen capacity, before using the notion of capacity building to develop five principles for the design of public engagement with science and technology. We demonstrate the use of these principles through a discussion of the development and realization of the pilot for a large-scale public engagement with science and technology activity, the Futurescape City Tours, which was carried out in Arizona in 2012.

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