Doctoral School Sustainable Development II - do be defined
Abstract
The PhD project is part of the project “Reshaping Science-Policy Interactions in Climate Policy” at the Institute of Forest, Environmental, and Natural Resource Policy. It draws on the assumption that scientific expertise has the potential to make valuable contributions to climate policy. Nevertheless, one can recognize that science and policy are often linked in an insufficient way and that their relationship is characterized by strong barriers: On the one hand political decisions strongly – and to a growing extent – rely on scientific results and argumentations. This leads – amongst others – to increasingly differentiated and fragmented advisory landscapes on climate change issues. On the other hand, at the same time, a lack of social and political trust in scientific knowledge can be detected. In a nutshell, it can be stated that climate change mitigation and adaptation are characterized by complexity, societal stakes and uncertainty and so does the interaction of science and policy in this field. Accordingly, climate policy may benefit from new types and institutions of science-policy interaction. The dissertation thesis aims at providing insights on how climate science and climate policy interac-tions can be integrated more productively. Thereby, it mainly deals with the questions on how sci-ence-policy interactions can be effectively institutionalized and how processes of ‘knowledge brokerage’ can be fostered. By applying a multi-analytical framework that builds on the concept of ‘knowledge brokerage’ – that clearly goes beyond the ‘classical’ linear model of mere knowledge transfer – the project analyzes and compares different innovative forms of KB-institutionalization in climate policy in different industrialized countries. At first, the institutions, actors and processes of science-policy interaction in Austrian climate policy will be mapped and analyzed in order to identify the strengths, weaknesses, potentials and obstacles for an effective interaction of research and policy. Subsequently, an in-depth analysis of relevant cases shall provide a profound understanding of how climate science and climate policy are productively integrated in selected innovative processes in different industrialized countries. As Germany can be considered as kind of a reference system – regarding the transferability of forms of ‘knowledge brokerage’ to the Austrian context – special attention will be paid to the institutionalization of science-policy interaction in German climate policy. Finally, by synthesizing the empirical results and critically reflecting them with relevant stakeholders, the project aims at revealing options on how to improve institutions and processes of ‘knowledge brokerage’ in Austrian climate policy and beyond.
Publikationen
Science-Policy Interactions in a Neo-corporatist System: Knowledge Brokerage in Austrian Climate Policy
Autoren: Hermann, Andrea Tony; Bauer, Anja; Pregernig, Michael; Hogl, Karl Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Karl Hogl
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Karl Hogl
karl.hogl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73220
BOKU Project Leader
31.10.2011 - 30.09.2014