Objective
To analyse the utilisation and integration of scientific knowledge on climate change into political decision making at the national level; to evaluate the potential for the establishment of the EU as a political climate region.
OBJECTIVES:
To analyse the utilisation and integration of scientific knowledge on climate change into political decision making at the national level; to evaluate the potential for the establishment of the EU as a political climate region.
DESCRIPTION:
The project analyses research on global climate change and its interactions with policies.
It assumes that there is a discrepancy between the global operation of science and the domination of climate policy by nation states, and that the issue of climate change needs a broader, regionalised integration of scientific expertise.
Science operates mainly at the global level, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a dominant scientific institution. On the other hand, a complementary political institution on the global level to which scientific insights can be transferred does not exist. The debate on climate policy is dominated by nation states, with important differences in problem-perception and policy options. But climate change is too complex to be dealt with at a national level. The European Union can represent an intermediate level for research on climate change and its interactions with politics. This involves the formation of a European research system (a "regionalised expertise") that focuses on the impacts of climate change for the EU as one political and economic region, and the establishment of an interface between this research system and European policy making.
The project examines the opportunities and problems of such a "Europeanisation" of climate change research and to formulate recommendations to improve the interaction between science and policy. Two main processes are analysed: the integration of scientific knowledge coming from different disciplines or even different research cultures, i.e. the natural and the social sciences; and the interaction between science and politics at the national level as well as at the EU level. National case studies (UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany) are compared and evaluated in view of assessing the conditions for the establishment of the EU as a political climate region.
The integration of scientific knowledge and science/politics interactions are analyzed at the EU level through interviews and analysis of scientific and policy documents. Finally, learning processes with regard to the establishment of the EU as a political climate region are investigated.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
- social sciences
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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Coordinator
33615 BIELEFELD
Germany
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