Enhancing Science Impact: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice for Sustainability - Softcover

Peat Leith (author)|Kevin O'Toole (author)|Marcus Haward (author)|Brian Coffey (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1486305350 ISBN 13: 9781486305353

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society. What do exemplary scientists and organisations do to bridge the gaps between these groups and help their research to make the greatest impact? How do they do it? And how can their best practices be adapted for a diverse range of specific sustainability challenges?

Enhancing Science Impact: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice for Sustainability addresses these questions in an accessible and engaging way. It provides principles explaining how research programs can work more effectively across the boundaries between science, society and decision-making by building social andinstitutional networks. The book suggests ways of defining and thinking about problems and then offers five frameworks for embedding science within specific governance contexts. It will be an indispensable guide for researcher leaders, science program managers and science policy advisers interested in ensuring applied research can meaningfully contribute to sustainability outcomes.

Features

• A highly readable and easily applicable guide for scientists, research managers and science policy advisers on howto create outcomes from environmental research
• Provides a conceptual model for improving the design and implementation of outcome-based science programs
• Break out boxes provide supplementary information, examples and simple method outlines.

About this title

About the Author

Peat Leith is a Senior Research Fellow at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania. His research focuses on social and institutional aspects of agriculture and coastal zone management, ranging from action research in climate change adaptation to scholarly research in science and technology studies.

Kevin O’Toole is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. His research focuses on comparative studies of policies and their application to sustainability and participatory governance in rural areas.

Marcus Haward is a political scientist specialising in oceans and Antarctic governance, coastal management and marine resources management. He is currently a Professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania.

Brian Coffey is a lecturer in sustainability and urban planning at RMIT. His research focuses on the policy dimensions of sustainability, environmental governance and science-policy-practice relations. Prior to completing his PhD, Brian worked in a variety of public sector environmental policy and planning roles.

Edition details

• Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1486305350
• ISBN 13: 9781486305353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208