Scientific collectives in region-building processes

Article Article scientifique Article Scientific collectives in region-building processes eng 2014 author Debarbieux Bernard 0000-0001-8745-4862 115976 author Balsiger Jörg 716235 author Djordjevic Dusan 714309 author Gaberell Simon 586373 author Rudaz Gilles 56187 149-159 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.06.005 1462-9011 During the last 30 years, growing demand for science-based policy making has contributed to the mobilization of scientific cooperation alongside transnational political arrangements for addressing environmental issues. Following the contemporary trend towards regionalizing environmental policy and practice, many of these scientific joint efforts have focused on a regional scale. This article examines regional scientific cooperation in the context of the institutionalization of mountain regions in Europe. Such cooperation can be observed from the Pyrenees to Central Asia, albeit with a degree of variation that largely remains unexplored in scientific research. Sometimes scientific cooperation served to lay the groundwork of a mountain policy initiative, other times it appeared in its wake; some examples appear as loose networks of individual scientists, others are set up as formalized monitoring and observation centers; finally, some scientific joint efforts are formally linked to, or incorporated in a mountain policy initiative, while others are largely independent. The article proposes a new typology for understanding the interactions between regional scientific mobilization and regional policy making and provides up-to-date portraits of six main cases. Science Policy Mountains Dewey 333.7-333.9 Dewey 910 18 Institut des sciences de l'environnement 0DB 120 Département de géographie et environnement T2 false 903 Environnement et Territorialités 942 ISE Biodiversité 943 ISE Climat 944 ISE Eau 946 ISE Villes et territoires 939 Pôle/Institut Gouvernance de l'environnement et développement territorial (PI-GEDT) Environmental science & policy 42 467ea007-60ce-48a2-8e50-a71a6cf9c197 Article (Accepted version) Public Scientific collectives final.pdf 259497 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Institut des sciences de l'environnement Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de géographie et environnement

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