A5034906592- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Data Visualization and Analytics
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Team Dynamics and Performance
- Media Influence and Health
Utrecht University
2020-2024
Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have gained a prominent role in the climate science-policy interface. The article reconstructs evolution of IAMs and their changing this interface, investigating how why become so prominent. Based on literature analysis, quantitative document analysis semi-structured interviews, we describe historic interactions between policy-making 1970 2015. We identify five phases which played distinct mediating roles science policy, succeeding to adjust scenario...
Some of the most influential explorations low-carbon transformations are conducted with Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). The recent attempts by IPCC to look for pathways compatible 1.5 °C and 2 temperature goals a case in point. Earlier scholarship indicates that model-based persuasive bringing specific possible future alternatives into view guiding policymaking. However, process through which these shared imaginations futures come about is not yet well understood. By closely examining...
Integrated assessment models (IAM) and resulting scenarios have become increasingly institutionalised relevant in the science-policy interface of climate policy. Despite their analytical strengths to conceive low-carbon futures, co-evolution with transnational politics has also led a focus on specific set techno-economic futures that are typically based relatively narrow assumptions. This deviates attention from alternatives hardly studied by IAMs, but might be more desirable societal...
Abstract A growing body of research indicates that effective science-policy interactions demand novel approaches, especially in policy domains with long time horizons like climate change. Serious games offer promising opportunities this regard, but empirical on game effects and games’ effectiveness supporting engagement remains limited. We investigated the a role-playing simulation risk perceptions associated tipping points among knowledgeable engaged audience non-governmental observers...
Simulation games are increasingly popular tools for opening up future imaginaries, especially in the arena of sustainability policy-making and decision support. However, there is a lack understanding regarding potential power anticipatory governance. We argue that utility simulation support climate governance can be greatly increased when game processes consciously designed to impact present day planning action. At same time, designers with intention or intervene inevitably enter political...
Visualizations are influential in the interaction between environmental science and policy. Research on framing visualizations (visual framing) is expanding. These studies typically focus 'static' images; themselves. However, already occurs during their production through choices made by producers, may be reframed while traveling across boundaries science, policy society. So far, visual process reframing circulation remains relatively unexplored undertheorized, a gap which current research...
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are critical tools to explore possible pathways a low-carbon future. By simulating complex interactions between social and climatic processes, they help policymakers systematically compare mitigation policies. However, their authoritative projections of cost-effective technically feasible restrict more transformative imaginaries, especially because IAM often understood in terms probability rather than plausibility. We suggest an interaction with climate...
Abstract The need for engaging citizens in climate policymaking is increasingly recognised. Despite indications that the form of expert involvement can strongly shape outcomes, this remains scarcely researched. We analysed two unique and contrasting cases citizen engagement national mitigation policy: 1) Irish Citizens’ Assembly (ICA), first assembly involving live presentations face-to-face deliberations; 2) Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) on Dutch policymaking, where more than 10,000...