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Science for Policy Handbook

Web Editor — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:58:03 +0000

Science for Policy Handbook provides advice on how to bring science to the attention of policymakers. The handbook is dedicated to researchers and research organisations aiming to achieve policy impact.

Today we face major policy challenges, which cannot be solved without scientific evidence. Science and policy are different worlds, but they must collaborate closely in order to address the wicked problems of our age.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, with a mission to bring science and knowledge into EU policymaking. Over the past years, it has embraced new types of knowledge and practices in order to increase the impact of research on European policies. The Science for Policy Handbook presents the lessons learnt along the way, applicable not just in the EU context.

The book puts together advice on new skills and practices for individual researchers but also discusses elements of institutional change – knowledge areas and processes in which to invest. It puts co-creation at the centre of Science for Policy 2.0, a more integrated model of the knowledge-policy relationship.

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Science, politics and society: the post-normal approach in theory and practice.

Web Editor — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:56:05 +0000

For years, the interaction between science and politics was a one-way relationship in which scientists would provide politicians with neutral, objective and reliable knowledge to support decision-making. The complexity of today’s challenges, where ‘facts are uncertain, values in dispute, interests high and decisions urgent’, has made this narrative inadequate concerning knowledge and its public sharing. This volume recounts the change in this interaction from the ‘post-normal science’ (PNS) approach proposed in the 1990s by Jerome Ravetz and Silvio Funtowicz, authors of the first two articles on the actuality and future of PNS. The other contributions of more than 50 authors explore the challenges that PNS represents both in theoretical and participatory research and public engagement practices in Italy.

The book is the first in the Editorial Series “SCIENZIATI IN AFFANNO?” [SCIENTISTS IN DISTRESS?] which deals with the changes in research in a context in which the relations between science, society and politics are the subject of public discussion and redefinition.

Language: Italian.

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Chapter 2 – Post-Normal Science: How Does It Resonate With the World of Today?

Web Editor — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:53:44 +0000

The chapter describes the main insights of Post-Normal Science, and its developments in close association with the European Commission Joint Research Centre.

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