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Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change

An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Authors:
  1. Tora Skodvin

    1. Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO), University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

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Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 5)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 1-11

  3. Effectiveness in Processes of Science-Policy Interaction

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 13-25

  4. The Science-Policy Nexus

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 27-64

  5. Designing Institutions for Science-Policy Interaction

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 65-91

  6. The Development of an International Regime on a Human-Induced Climate Change

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 93-103

  7. Structure: The Institutional Design of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 105-150

  8. Agent: Leadership Performance in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 151-192

  9. Causal Relationship: Real or Spurious?

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 193-223

  10. Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change

    • Tora Skodvin
    Pages 225-233

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 235-255
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About this book

Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however, complex and difficult, particularly because it is an encounter between two distinct systems of behaviour: the scientific ideal of impartiality and disinterestedness and the political reality of interest realisation and strategic behaviour. This study analyses the extent to which and how the institutional framework within which the science-policy dialogue takes place - through conscious design - can be utilised as an instrument to handle obstacles and barriers immanent of science-policy interaction and thereby serve as an instrument to enhance the effectiveness of the dialogue. Also, the impact of actor behaviour, particularly behaviour taking the form of leadership performance, is investigated. This book provides a detailed and in-depth empirical study of science-policy interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from its establishment in 1988, to the provision of the Second IPCC Assessment Report in 1995. The main focus of the empirical investigation is on Working Group I of the IPCC.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO), University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

    Tora Skodvin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Structure and Agent in the Scientific Diplomacy of Climate Change

  • Book Subtitle: An Empirical Case Study of Science-Policy Interaction in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  • Authors: Tora Skodvin

  • Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48168-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6637-9Published: 31 October 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5588-0Published: 22 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48168-0Published: 10 January 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0919

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 255

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Social Sciences, general, Philosophy, general, Sociology, general

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