TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding and managing trust at the climate science-policy interface
AU - Lacey, Justine
AU - Howden, Mark
AU - Cvitanovic, Christopher
AU - Colvin, Rebecca
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Climate change effects are accelerating, making the need for appropriate actions informed by sound climate knowledge ever more pressing. A strong climate science-policy relationship facilitates the effective integration of climate knowledge into local, national and global policy processes, increases society's responsiveness to a changing climate, and aligns research activity to policy needs. This complex science-policy relationship requires trust between climate science 'producers' and 'users', but our understanding of trust at this interface remains largely uncritical. To assist climate scientists and policymakers, this Perspective provides insights into how trust develops and operates at the interface of climate science and policy, and examines the extent to which trust can manage - or even create - risk at this interface.
AB - Climate change effects are accelerating, making the need for appropriate actions informed by sound climate knowledge ever more pressing. A strong climate science-policy relationship facilitates the effective integration of climate knowledge into local, national and global policy processes, increases society's responsiveness to a changing climate, and aligns research activity to policy needs. This complex science-policy relationship requires trust between climate science 'producers' and 'users', but our understanding of trust at this interface remains largely uncritical. To assist climate scientists and policymakers, this Perspective provides insights into how trust develops and operates at the interface of climate science and policy, and examines the extent to which trust can manage - or even create - risk at this interface.
U2 - 10.1038/s41558-017-0010-z
DO - 10.1038/s41558-017-0010-z
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 8
SP - 22
EP - 28
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 1
ER -