In discussion with Christopher Finch, a senior social development specialist with the World Bank in Kenya, I learnt the following lessons: Citizen engagement is essential for effective development, strengthening the quality of policymaking and the science of service delivery with improved social accountability.
A key science policymaking body in the U.S. House of Representatives is about to get a makeover.
Observers applaud his familiarity with both the academy and the U.S. science policymaking apparatus.
When it comes to citizen engagement in science policymaking, "nobody has been as influential," says Richard Sclove, founder of the Loka Institute, a research advocacy nonprofit organization in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Citizen engagement is essential for effective development, strengthening the quality of policymaking and the "science" of service delivery with improved social accountability.
Early signs indicate we may suffer a full-throated attack on the role of science in policymaking.
The recommendation to ban naphyrone by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) raises again important questions about the role of science in policymaking.
Compared to its influence on other public policies and national-level policymaking, the influence of science on international climate policy has always been relatively strong, both in terms of defining basic causal chains as well as in setting the short- to medium-term agenda.
Failure to establish IPBES would, by the UN's analysis, leave a big gap between science and policymaking.
In a May retrospective paper, he told the community, still reeling from the so-called Climategate incident, that he felt that science and policymaking was "an exciting process, despite the frustrations of the present problems still not having been adequately resolved, and those new ones bound to come as we explore together the new frontiers of interdisciplinary climate science......
Respect for science in policymaking should be a prerequisite for any Cabinet position".
