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Scientists and climate governance: A view from the South

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
卷 137, 期 -, 页码 396-405

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.09.012

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Climate governance; Scientific knowledge; Global South; Literature review; Science-policy-interface; Climate change

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The importance of science in climate governance has increased over time. Different research approaches and perspectives offer varying views on the role of scientists in policy decisions. Scientists need to establish long-term relationships with policy makers and consider political factors.
The importance of science for climate governance has strengthened over time and the topic inspires prolific academic writing on the influence of scientists and scientific knowledge on policy decisions. One of the streams of research in the field is inspired by Cash ' s (2003) seminal work highlighting how the role of scientists depends on perceptions of salience, credibility and legitimacy. Other views call for attention to the politics involved in scientific performance while influencing policy and on the local circumstances, considering the many ways in which societies relate to science and expertise. The role of scientists in climate governance is a contested issue, relevant for many research centres aiming to influence policy decisions given the urgency of the climate crisis. To better understand this role, we reviewed mainstream international literature and identified four main ap-proaches, which we label: scientific usable knowledge, politics of science, critical approaches and hybrid ap-proaches. We contrasted the results with the experience of scientists from a Chilean climate research centre, to provide a view from the South on the role of scientists in climate governance. Our results show that Cash ' s approach was a common ground for Chilean climate scientists, upon which they build ideas on the importance of building long-term relationships between scientists and policy makers. However, they also acknowledged the need to take into consideration the role of politics in climate-related decisions and the power relations and actor ' s interests.

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