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the proliferation of models and the differentiation of respective modelling landscapes and communities, resulting in intensified competition for political authority and early path dependencies in their ... dependencies in their political use. Second, different models are increasingly coupled or integrated into complex model frameworks, raising questions of comprehensibility and accountability. Third, modelling for
involves them in seeking to provide ‘objective’ evidence while simultaneously determining what counts as evidence for policy and making recommendations for political decisions. ... with different political systems, benefitting from significant government funding to provide evidence of ‘what works’ for policy and public service decision-making1 (e.g. £20 billion worth of public
structures for politicians that favour setting ambitious policy goals while disfavouring the effective policies needed to achieve them; second, political ideologies and interests that conflict with effective ... : these are unpopular with the public, but are among the most effective interventions for improving health and the climate. The political unpalatability of such taxes is illustrated in the fate of two
Reactor, the Square Kilometer Array, and the African Lightsource. We show that countries of the Global South pursue a multitude of political and scientific objectives in IGSOs, ranging from capacity ... -building to casting off political isolation. Moreover, we demonstrate that Southern countries have varying chances of attaining these objectives, depending on their scientific community, domestic politics
-income countries, possibly to establish political goodwill. While building political ties clearly remains an important Chinese objective, access to the latest know-how in S&T has become a critical part of ... . Role of STAs Science diplomacy practices and agreements arose for both political and scientific reasons. Science agreements between sovereign states arose initially among communist nations in the post
politics of missions and their links to particular interests and political goals, or about the influence of the broader economic and institutional environment on the appropriate design of missions (the ... party-political interests. Political leaders perceived the programme as a success, and the importance of the building sector both as an economic factor and with regard to achieving climate policy goals
. 2014; Malakoff and Griffith 2016; Krlev et al. 2020; Koalition 2021). Second, a number of ambitious policy approaches have been established in many countries and at different political levels that aim to ... understanding the possibilities, limits, and effects that targeted political support for SI has on transformations or dedicated missions, it is helpful to differentiate different intervention logics with respect
widely different research contexts. Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands are all northern European countries with relatively similar political, economic, and social contexts for research. While the research ... Crossref Search ADS WorldCat Hardwig J. ( 1991 ) ‘ The Role of Trust in Knowledge ’, The Journal of Philosophy , 88 : 693 – 708 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS
Norsk Gallup in 2006 reported that as many as 75 per cent of respondents rejected genetically modified food (Hviid Nielsen 2007), and this lack of public acceptance has halted both financial and political ... technologies such as CRISPR as a regulatory and social object. Scientists working with CRISPR are central actors in these negotiations, and their research provides knowledge to scientific development, political
align with the European Commission’s new political dedication towards sustainability concerns, the European Green Deal, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (McCann and Soete 2020; Marinelli ... milestones was achieved should be utilized to guide policy reactions accordingly (Kattel and Mazzucato 2018). 3. Research question Motivated by the political push to align RIS3 with sustainability challenges
disease burden of non-communicable diseases is the result of not only broad socio-political changes, including greater availability of care for communicable diseases, but also changes in diets and exercise ... to foster, inform, and support a ‘well-ordered’ debate on research priorities, in two fields that are often highly contested and openly political (Sarewitz and Pielke 2007). A parallel goal of the
The implications of a polarizing political climate on the plight of immigrants with disabilities in the United States are physiological and emotional. Rehabilitation and human services professionals ... -based trauma can pertain to circumstances such as a lack of healthcare access, political conflict in the country of origin, institutional betrayal, being undocumented, and the arduous visa application
through’ (Lindblom 1959), and a highly political process (Zachary Taylor 2016). However, policy-making is also a learning and collective process (Teubal 1996) where the aim is not to maximise a well-defined ... accountability as ‘a liability to reveal, to explain, and to justify what one does; how one discharges responsibilities, financial or other, whose several origins may be political, constitutional, hierarchical or
, on their political feasibility within, usually, complex organisational settings. A part of the complexity of effective implementation derives from understanding the responses of stakeholders to the ... . The modelling process is illustrated through a real case. Stakeholder management; Systems thinking; Negotiating political feasibility 1 Introduction Stakeholder management is critical to the
: national, regional, and local. There are elected political bodies at each level—a national parliament, 21 county councils, and 290 municipal councils. Regional government, local government, and self ... created its first biogas strategy. This initiated a period when biogas received increased political attention and was strengthened by regional-level commissioned studies that considered biogas’s socio
: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology , Vol. 20 , pp. 33 – 69 . Switzerland: Springer . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS Google Preview WorldCat COPAC De Boer H. F
, researchers have to deal with its often unpredictable complexities (e.g. patients’ problems, different interests of stakeholders, and political involvement), while academic impact is perhaps best achieved by ... practices across five disciplines (philosophy, mathematics, chemistry, anthropology, and medical science). See
geographic scope and inclusivity of the science diplomacy landscape reveals the interconnected nexuses of power operating across diverse diplomatic, scientific, and political communities. We identify five key ... wider diplomatic effort on the part of developing countries to assert themselves in world forums, especially the UN and its agencies. However, the scientific and technical arena took on a political
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been promoted and adopted broadly and has led to advances in health and human services. Notwithstanding the underlying rationale of EBP philosophy to diversify the ... thinking fallacies that confound non-evidence-based “treatment as usual” practice with actual EBP philosophy. Flawed belief systems about EBP, in tandem with a compliance-based culture, fail to provide
) “collective action and cooperation,” (4) “information and communication,” (5) “social cohesion and inclusion,” and (6) “empowerment and political action” (p. 1). In this paper, we focus primarily on the first ... able to shed light on a wide variety of processes, ranging from personal, familial, and community processes, physical and mental health effects, community organizing, and even civic and political
