The use of scientific knowledge in the decision making process of environmental public policies in Brazil

Carneiro, Maria José; Rosa, Teresa da Silva

doi:10.22323/2.10010203

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“…Para los entrevistados la ciencia emerge en dos narrativas: (i) capturada por los intereses políticos y (ii) excesivamente academicista. Se han reconocido cuatro modos de relación cienciapolítica: (i) cuando los políticos utilizan la ciencia para legitimar su acción, (ii) cuando los científicos instrumentalizan su conocimiento para adaptarlo a la acción política, (iii) cuando el conocimiento científico es sujeto de intereses políticos y (iv) cuando la ciencia es vista también como parte de la arena política, disputando con ésta paradigmas (Carneiro & Da-Silva-Rosa, 2011). Vemos así que la instrumentalización ha sido analizada en ambas direcciones, aun cuando los entrevistados sólo aprecian a la ciencia como una herramienta de los políticos para legitimar su acción e inacción.…”

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Percepciones del cambio climático en la Isla de Chiloé: Desafíos para la gobernanza local

M.³

2019

Magallania

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presenta múltiples problemas asociados al uso no sustentable de recursos naturales y a condiciones sociales de desigualdad y pobreza. Este artículo explora con métodos cualitativos cómo actores claves de la Isla están percibiendo y respondiendo al cambio climático en este complejo contexto socioambiental. Los resultados muestran que el fenómeno es percibido como un problema emergente, cuyos impactos sociales y ambientales ya están ocurriendo. Ante esto se despliegan respuestas generalmente individuales, prevaleciendo las asimetrías de poder y la competencia por sobre la colaboración, coordinación e intercambio de buenas prácticas. Un sistema de gobernanza climática en la Isla demanda cambios no sólo institucionales sino también transformaciones sociales y culturales.

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Percepciones del cambio climático en la Isla de Chiloé: Desafíos para la gobernanza local

M.³

2019

Magallania

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“…Collectively, these countries are home to over 25% of the global population and 32.9% of the global burden of chronic disease [34]. Developing countries, Brazil and China, also represent developing countries that are sparsely studied in the literature [35,36] and that have experienced relatively lower levels of dissemination and implementation of EBNCDP [10,28,[37][38][39].…”

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Exploring political influences on evidence-based non-communicable disease prevention across four countries

Furtado

Budd

Ying

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Health Education Research

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Implementation of evidence-based practices can improve efficiency and effectiveness of public health efforts. Few studies have explored the political contextual factors that impact implementation of evidence-based non-communicable disease prevention (EBNCDP). This study aimed to do so in Australia, Brazil, China and the United States. Investigators conducted 10-13 qualitative, semi-structured interviews of public health practitioners working in functionally similar public health organizations in each country (total N = 50). Study participants were identified through purposive sampling and interviews were structured around an interview guide covering six domains related to EBNCDP. Interviewees from all four countries identified funding as the primary politically-influenced barrier to implementing EBNCDP. Similarly widespread barriers included government funding priorities that shift based on who is in power and the difficulty of convincing policy-makers and funders that non-communicable disease prevention is a wise investment of political capital. Policymakers who are not evidence-driven was another common barrier even in the United States and Australia, where EBNCDP is more established. Findings suggest that political contextual factors influence EBNCDP and vary to an extent by country, though certain factors seem to be universal. This can aid public health practitioners, political leaders, and policymakers in advocating for conditions and policies that encourage evidence-based practice.

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“…This positive interest in the role of scientific advice has led to strong support for more prominent roles for scientists in the policy process (Steel at al., 2004) and there is a view that scientists ought to be involved in the policy process as sources of objective information (Mazur, 1981). However, in a recent study in Brazil, researchers identified tensions and barriers, for example scientists try to adopt politically neutral positions and decision makers accuse scientists of 'academicism' and 'disengagement from reality' (Carneiro and da-Silva-Rosa, 2011).…”

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Environmental consultants, knowledge brokering and policy-making: a case study

Sardo

Weitkamp

2017

IJEPDM

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Biographical notes Ana Margarida Sardo is a Research AbstractThis small-scale exploratory study examined the role of environmental consultants in the policy-making process using one European country (Portugal) as a case study. The study focused particularly on the role of environmental consultants as knowledge brokers, providing scientific expertise to national and local government policy-makers. The research question and other topics were explored through in depth interviews and an online questionnaire. The data indicate that in Portugal environmental consultants act as knowledge brokers, providing policy-makers with access to scientific information and encouraging its use; this information feeds into the policy process at the formulation, implementation, assessment and review stages. They also play other roles such as acting as financial, legal and technical advisors.

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The use of scientific knowledge in the decision making process of environmental public policies in Brazil

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Percepciones del cambio climático en la Isla de Chiloé: Desafíos para la gobernanza local

Percepciones del cambio climático en la Isla de Chiloé: Desafíos para la gobernanza local

Exploring political influences on evidence-based non-communicable disease prevention across four countries

Environmental consultants, knowledge brokering and policy-making: a case study

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