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Climate change is severely impacting biodiversity with long-term implications for conservation and management. While biologists, park managers, and conservation organizations have performed extensive research on climate impacts to biodiversity and have dramatically improved scientific understandings of the problem (Lovejoy and Hannah 2005), the influence of this research in the policy process has been limited. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions remains the focus of climate change policy, and advancement of adaptation measures, especially for biodiversity conservation, has been slow to take form. This is problematic because institutional coordination for biodiversity at all scales will be essential in a changing climate. What explains this limited response, despite a growing scientific consensus on climate impacts to biodiversity? A critical question that needs to be addressed is how scientific knowledge shapes policy, especially in an issue arena riddled with uncertainty regarding future impacts, as well as a lag of effects. Existing research offers varying explanations. Some theorists would point to a lack of consensus among the scientific community with regard to prescriptions and/or a lack of significant ties between the scientific community and policy deliberations (Haas 1992), to the power of specific interests over others in achieving strategic outcomes (Dahl 1961), the role of coalitions of actors who are delineated by shared beliefs (Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993), or to the broader social structure. This proposed research will design an analytical framework to shed significant light on the above question by applying and assessing various hypotheses about science and policy that Haas and Sabatier/Hank Jenkins-Smith have undertaken. Based on comparative case study research, this research will evaluate whether these theories hold explanatory power, need to be reformulated, or whether other theoretical literature on the policy process should be integrated. Data will be collected through qualitative and quantitative methods, such as surveys, literature analysis, and interviews conducted in case studies. This research aims to improve theoretical understandings of the role of science in policy change, and how the problem of climate impacts to biodiversity can be translated onto the global institutional agenda. In conclusion, drawing upon insights gleaned from collected data, this research will consider prescriptions for contending with the problem at hand. |
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Name: Midwest Political Science Association
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| Levin, Kelly. "Conserving Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: The Role of Science in Policy Formation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p198623_index.html> |
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| Levin, K. , 2007-04-12 "Conserving Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: The Role of Science in Policy Formation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p198623_index.html |
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Abstract: Climate change is severely impacting biodiversity with long-term implications for conservation and management. While biologists, park managers, and conservation organizations have performed extensive research on climate impacts to biodiversity and have dramatically improved scientific understandings of the problem (Lovejoy and Hannah 2005), the influence of this research in the policy process has been limited. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions remains the focus of climate change policy, and advancement of adaptation measures, especially for biodiversity conservation, has been slow to take form. This is problematic because institutional coordination for biodiversity at all scales will be essential in a changing climate. What explains this limited response, despite a growing scientific consensus on climate impacts to biodiversity? A critical question that needs to be addressed is how scientific knowledge shapes policy, especially in an issue arena riddled with uncertainty regarding future impacts, as well as a lag of effects. Existing research offers varying explanations. Some theorists would point to a lack of consensus among the scientific community with regard to prescriptions and/or a lack of significant ties between the scientific community and policy deliberations (Haas 1992), to the power of specific interests over others in achieving strategic outcomes (Dahl 1961), the role of coalitions of actors who are delineated by shared beliefs (Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993), or to the broader social structure. This proposed research will design an analytical framework to shed significant light on the above question by applying and assessing various hypotheses about science and policy that Haas and Sabatier/Hank Jenkins-Smith have undertaken. Based on comparative case study research, this research will evaluate whether these theories hold explanatory power, need to be reformulated, or whether other theoretical literature on the policy process should be integrated. Data will be collected through qualitative and quantitative methods, such as surveys, literature analysis, and interviews conducted in case studies. This research aims to improve theoretical understandings of the role of science in policy change, and how the problem of climate impacts to biodiversity can be translated onto the global institutional agenda. In conclusion, drawing upon insights gleaned from collected data, this research will consider prescriptions for contending with the problem at hand. |
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| Protecting Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: The Role of Science in Adaptation Policy Kelly Levin Doctoral Student Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale University Prepared for the Midwest Political Science Association Meetings Chicago Illinois April 2007 Introduction Due to the unprecedented rate of human-induced climate change there is now widespread consensus that unless proactive adaptation efforts are embraced significant and sustained biodiversity loss will occur. Climate change has already begun to impact biodiversity and trends are becoming |
| well- being and fulfillment (Kellert and Wilson 1993). And lastly biodiversity loss is irreversible and thus it is difficult to know what other values it may serve for future generations. By developing and testing theories of policy change this research will illuminate how policy innovation can be achieved and how the problem of adaptation for biodiversity conservation can be advanced through the policy cycle. Ultimately explanatory research will be bridged with prescriptive research. In the concluding phase of research |
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