Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change

An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2000
ISBN: 978-0-7923-6637-9
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1230 g

Reihe: Advances in Global Change Research

Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however, complex and difficult, particularly because it is an encounter between two distinct systems of behaviour: the scientific ideal of impartiality and disinterestedness and the political reality of interest realisation and strategic behaviour. This study analyses the extent to which and how the within which the science-policy dialogue takes place - through conscious design - can be utilised as an instrument to handle obstacles and barriers immanent of science-policy interaction and thereby serve as an instrument to enhance the effectiveness of the dialogue. Also, the impact of actor behaviour, particularly behaviour taking the form of , is investigated. This book provides a detailed and in-depth empirical study of science-policy interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from its establishment in 1988, to the provision of the Second IPCC Assessment Report in 1995. The main focus of the empirical investigation is on Working Group I of the IPCC.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skodvin, T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Aeronomie, Ionosphäre, Magnetosphäre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Effectiveness in Processes of Science-Policy Interaction.- The Science-Policy Nexus.- Designing Institutions for Science-Policy Interaction.- The Development of an International Regime on a Human-Induced Climate Change.- Structure: The Institutional Design of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.- Agent: Leadership Performance in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.- Causal Relationship: Real or Spurious?.- Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change.