When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies
When Does Science Matter? International Relations Meets Science and Technology Studies
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科学何时重要？
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
G. Sundqvist
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作者：
R. Lidskog;G. Sundqvist
科学在什么条件下影响环境政策？国际关系（IR）学者认为，为了获得政治影响力，科学不应该在达成科学共识之前与政策联系起来。我们把这一建议作为一个出发点，来研究科学是如何以及应该如何与国际环境治理中的政策联系起来的。利用科学技术研究（STS）的见解，我们讨论了IR的贡献，既提出了它的局限性，又进一步发展了对IR中的科学共识的理解，以及科学与政策之间分离和联系的必要性。以政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）的组织和绩效为例进行了说明。我们认为，STS对情境因素和非正式因素的关注可以提高对科学与政策关系的理解，这种关系倾向于关注科学与政策相互作用的正式组织设计。
Under what conditions does science influence environmental policy? International relations (IR) scholars argue that to gain political influence, science should not connect to policy before scientific consensus has been reached. We take this suggestion as a point of departure for investigating how science is and should be connected to policy in international environmental governance. Using insights from science and technology studies (STS), we discuss the contributions of IR, both to present its limitations and to further develop understanding of scientific consensus within IR and the need for separation and connection between science and policy. The organization and performance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is used as an illustrative case. We conclude that the focus within STS on contextual and informal factors could improve understanding of the science–policy relationship, which tends to focus on the formal organizational design of the interplay between science and policy.