Boundary work in climate policy making in Brazil: Reflections from the frontlines of the science-policy interface

Nunes, Felipe; Rajão, Raoni; Soares‐Filho, Britaldo

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.02.009

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“…Recognising the precarious funding outlook that constrains CXC’s ability to challenge policy through the on-going need to construct legitimacy, for itself and for the knowledge it provides, raises political questions over the ability of boundary organisations to question policy. Despite the hopes and ambitions of many who work at the climate science–policy interface, this paper concurs with Nunes et al.’s (2016) conclusion that boundary organisations are unsuitable locations for scientific or political revolutions. Of course, closure is never final, and CXC as boundary people (cf.…”

Section: A Critical Politics Of Translationsupporting

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Towards a critical politics of translation: (Re)Producing hegemonic climate governance

Machen

2018

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This paper raises critical questions about the relationship between knowledge translation and hegemonic power, and the way that this relationship shapes particular forms of neoliberal climate governance. The process of making scientific knowledge meaningful for policy audiences is increasingly being described as knowledge translation (over knowledge transfer or knowledge exchange), but what process does the language of translation describe? What discursive work is performed? And what politics does this shift in language serve? Through detailed analysis of a science–policy boundary organisation in Scotland, the paper examines the way in which emphasis on knowledge translation is central to creating a “demand-led” model of science–policy interaction. Drawing from Laclau and Mouffe’s work on articulation, the paper demonstrates the discursive work that translation performs in facilitating the construction and circulation of particular forms of scientific knowledge that (re)produce neoliberal climate change discourses and neoliberal modes of policy delivery. The paper further develops this argument by unpacking science–policy translation as a hegemonic practice. It concludes by calling for greater critical awareness of the hegemonic politics performed through science–policy translation, and highlights key implications – for boundary work, for knowledge politics and for addressing climate change.

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Section: A Critical Politics Of Translationsupporting

confidence: 73%

Towards a critical politics of translation: (Re)Producing hegemonic climate governance

Machen

2018

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Although this kind of analysis has several limitations creating areas of uncertainty, several approaches (e.g., Feuillette et al, 2016;Klauer et al, 2016) could be taken into account to address the increasing demand about the quantification of costs and risks related to environmental policies. In general, the evaluation of the water policy impact on the local environment and society should take advantage from the involvement of both scientists and policy communities linked in the framework of a boundary organization (e.g., Hoppe and Wesselink, 2014;Nunes et al, 2016). As a matter of fact, different actors (i.e., scientists, local and regional agencies) are active in the Venetian plain collecting a huge amount of data about the exploitation, the water quality, the regional geological and hydrogeological settings, etc.…”

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Does a change of irrigation technique impact on groundwater resources? A case study in Northeastern Italy

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Marcolongo

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Environmental Science & Policy

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“…More broadly, the good governance of complex global economic and environmental systems requires strong social, economic and legal institutions that are multilevel and hybrid (in types of actors, sectors, spaces and forms of relationships; Boehmelt et al, 2014;kalFaGianni, 2014;nUnes et al, 2016;ramos, 2015;stratoUdakis et al, 2016), context specific, flexible, participatory, representative, inclusive, accountable (donald and Way, 2016), transparent, resilient and effective (BraCkinG, 2015;van Bommel et al, 2016).…”

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Environmental Recourse at the Multilateral Development Banks

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2020

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Global governance now provides people with recourse for harm through International Grievance Mechanisms, such as the Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks. Yet little is known about how such mechanisms work. This Element examines how IGMs provide recourse for infringements of three procedural environmental rights: access to information, access to participation, and access to justice in environmental matters, as well as environmental protections drawn from the United Nations Guiding Principles and the World Bank's protection standards. A content analysis of 394 original IAM claims details how people invoke these rights. The sections then unpack how the IAMs provide community engagement through 'problem solving', and 'compliance investigations' that identify whether the harm resulted from the MDBs. Using a database of all known submissions to the IAMs (1,052 claims from 1994 to mid-2019), this Element demonstrate how the IAMs enable people to air their grievances, without necessarily solving their problems.

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Boundary work in climate policy making in Brazil: Reflections from the frontlines of the science-policy interface

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Towards a critical politics of translation: (Re)Producing hegemonic climate governance

Towards a critical politics of translation: (Re)Producing hegemonic climate governance

Does a change of irrigation technique impact on groundwater resources? A case study in Northeastern Italy

Environmental Recourse at the Multilateral Development Banks

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