Knowledge and information needs of adaptation policy-makers : a European study
Knowledge and information needs of adaptation policy-makers : a European study
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适应政策制定者的知识和信息需求：一项欧洲研究
DOI：
10.1007/s10113-012-0317-2
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Susanne Hanger
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作者：
Anna M.Barron;Meghan Brown;Luis M.Garcia-Segura;Roberto C.Melcangi;Suguru Kawato;Christian J.Pike.;Vignon-Zellweger N;Susanne Hanger
在整个欧洲，各国政府已经开始战略性地计划适应气候变化。鉴于适应问题的不确定性和复杂性，作出适应决定是困难的。已经有了大量关于气候影响和适应措施的研究成果，而且正在产生更多的研究成果，需要跨越科学和政策之间的界限。研究人员和政策制定者都已开始加紧努力，共同产生对两个社区都有价值的知识，特别是在适应气候变化的背景下。在这篇文章中，我们介绍了一项关于适应治理和信息需求的研究结果，并对八个欧洲国家进行了比较。我们确定了检索信息的来源和手段，以及科学家提供的知识的差距和问题，并分析了这些差距和问题是否似乎取决于各国所处的决策周期的时间点。我们发现，在适应规划的早期阶段，需求定义的质量、处理不确定性的方式以及科学-政策互动的质量确实取决于适应规划的阶段，而信息需求和来源则不是。我们的结论是，良好发展的科学-政策接口对于有效的适应决策至关重要。
Across Europe, national governments have started to strategically plan adaptation to climate change. Making adaptation decisions is difficult in the light of uncertainties and the complexity of adaptation problems. Already large amounts of research results on climate impacts and adaptive measures are available, and more are produced and need to be mediated across the boundary between science and policy. Both researchers and policy-makers have started to intensify efforts to coproduce knowledge that is valuable to both communities, particularly in the context of climate change adaptation. In this paper, we present results from a study of adaptation governance and information needs, comparing eight European countries. We identify sources and means for the retrieval of information as well as gaps and problems with the knowledge provided by scientists and analyzed whether these appear to be contingent on the point in the policy-making cycle where countries are. We find that in this early phase of adaptation planning, the quality of the definition of needs, the way uncertainty is dealt with, and the quality of science–policy interaction are indeed contingent on the stage of adaptation planning, while information needs and sources are not. We conclude that a well-developed science–policy interface is of key importance for effective decision-making for adaptation.