Understanding the North-South knowledge divide and its implications for policy: a quantitative analysis of the generation of scientific knowledge in the environmental sciences
Understanding the North-South knowledge divide and its implications for policy: a quantitative analysis of the generation of scientific knowledge in the environmental sciences
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DOI：
10.1016/j.envsci.2007.04.001
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
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6
通讯作者：
Gonzales, Patricia
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作者：
Karlsson, Sylvia;Srebotnjak, Tanja;Gonzales, Patricia
本文调查了发达国家和发展中国家在环境科学方面的科学知识鸿沟，并探讨了这一鸿沟对科学和政策制定的影响。对1993-2003年发表的6400多篇科学论文的定量数据分析证明，在具有高影响因子评级的9种环境期刊中，作者、出版率和科学研究的位置存在越来越大的鸿沟。除了发达国家和发展中国家之间出版率的严重不平衡之外，我们还发现了对某些生态气候区的研究偏见。超过80%的论文发表在温带和寒冷的生态气候带。在我们的研究中，只有13%的论文是基于亚热带和热带干旱地区的研究，尽管这些生态气候带占世界陆地面积的52%以上。基于这些结果，我们讨论了有限的经验来源和环境研究的重点如何破坏环境科学的普遍性的主张，以及这可能对不同层次的决策过程产生什么样的后果。最后，我们简要探讨了解决知识鸿沟的一些短期和长期战略。(c)2007爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
The paper investigates the scientific knowledge divide in the environmental sciences between developed and developing countries and explores the implications and impacts on both science and policyrnaking. Quantitative data analysis of more than 6400 scientific papers published in 1993-2003 yield evidence for a growing divide in authorship, publication rates, and location of scientific research in nine environmental journals with high impact factor ratings. In addition to this severe imbalance in publication rates between developed and developing countries, we also find a research bias toward certain eco-climatic zones. More than 80% of papers are published in and about temperate and cold eco-climatic zones. Only 13% of the papers in our study are based on research in the dry sub-tropical and tropical zones, although these eco-climatic zones account for more than 52% of the world's land area. Based on these results, we discuss how the limited empirical source and focus of environmental research undermine the claims of universality of environmental science and what consequences this may have on policymaking processes at different levels. Finally, we briefly explore some short- and long-term strategies to address the knowledge divide. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.