Science-policy interfaces

A Rationale for Science-Policy Interfaces

This paper aims at a better understanding of the justifications for science-policy interfaces, of the reasons for their growing importance in environmental governance, and of the theoretical and epistemological challenges they pose. We look at the intersections between science and policy to highlight that science and policy, far from being mutually exclusive and hermetic categories, are interse...

Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces: Emergent knowledge and monarch butterfly conservation

We study how knowledge is produced at the intersection of science, environmental policy and public engagement. Based on analysis of monarch butterfly conservation, we critically evaluate models of knowledge production. The monarch butterfly and its migration have engaged science and enchanted people for over a century, and current threats to monarchs catalyze debates and actions. This paper tra...

Informing policy with science.

e recently witnessed the peaceful—if controversial—transition of the United States presidency. As with any major change in federal government, the scientific community has concerns about new directions and priorities that may affect the way science is conducted, funded, and used in the United States and elsewhere. Of particular note with this new administration are concerns that President Trump...

Demography as social science and policy science

History of science and American science policy.

Historians of science have participated actively in debates over American science policy in the post-World War II period in a variety of ways, but their impact has been more to elucidate general concepts than to effect specific policy changes. Personal experiences, in the case of the debate over global warming, have demonstrated both the value and the limits of such involvement for the making o...