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Expert Knowledge within a Prominent Environmental Think Tank

Lilja, Nicky LU (2014) STVK12 20141
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The global climate change negotiations are experiencing a rescaling of international actors. Several of these actors are scientific communities that aim at providing policy recommendations based on expert knowledge for the negotiations. The literature within the science-policy nexus is applied to investigate the significance of expert communities however the literature does not target environmental think tanks. For this reason, this thesis aims at exploring 1 of the top 70 environmental think tanks in the world namely Environment for Development by applying the theoretical concept of usable knowledge. With the purpose to give an understanding of what the characteristics of usable knowledge are within Environment for Development. The... (More)
The global climate change negotiations are experiencing a rescaling of international actors. Several of these actors are scientific communities that aim at providing policy recommendations based on expert knowledge for the negotiations. The literature within the science-policy nexus is applied to investigate the significance of expert communities however the literature does not target environmental think tanks. For this reason, this thesis aims at exploring 1 of the top 70 environmental think tanks in the world namely Environment for Development by applying the theoretical concept of usable knowledge. With the purpose to give an understanding of what the characteristics of usable knowledge are within Environment for Development. The concept reflects on scientific actors' ability to produce expert knowledge by providing a set of requirements that can enhance scientific influence. By analysing Environment for Development’s procedural process as well as their published documents the characteristics of usable knowledge will be investigated. This thesis reaches the conclusion that Environment for Development as a highly ranked environmental think tank, has limited usable knowledge. Therefore there might be reasons to be critical toward Environment for Development and to stress the need for future research to further the understanding of environmental think tanks significance for the international policy process. (Less)
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Lilja, Nicky LU
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organization
alternative title
A critical discussion on the characteristics of usable knowledge
course
STVK12 20141
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
usable knowledge, characteristics, science-policy nexus, environmental think tank, Environment for Development
language
English
id
4451301
date added to LUP
2014-06-18 12:21:07
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2014-06-18 12:21:07
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  abstract     = {{The global climate change negotiations are experiencing a rescaling of international actors. Several of these actors are scientific communities that aim at providing policy recommendations based on expert knowledge for the negotiations. The literature within the science-policy nexus is applied to investigate the significance of expert communities however the literature does not target environmental think tanks. For this reason, this thesis aims at exploring 1 of the top 70 environmental think tanks in the world namely Environment for Development by applying the theoretical concept of usable knowledge. With the purpose to give an understanding of what the characteristics of usable knowledge are within Environment for Development. The concept reflects on scientific actors' ability to produce expert knowledge by providing a set of requirements that can enhance scientific influence. By analysing Environment for Development’s procedural process as well as their published documents the characteristics of usable knowledge will be investigated. This thesis reaches the conclusion that Environment for Development as a highly ranked environmental think tank, has limited usable knowledge. Therefore there might be reasons to be critical toward Environment for Development and to stress the need for future research to further the understanding of environmental think tanks significance for the international policy process.}},
  author       = {{Lilja, Nicky}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Expert Knowledge within a Prominent Environmental Think Tank}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}