Sustainable Development in Science Policy-Making
Abstract
New knowledge, created in international cooperation, is essential for global sustainability. Set against this background, this study focuses on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research. Based on interviews with policy makers and researchers, the book scrutinizes the actors, processes and contents of science policy in Germany. The author argues that science policy mainly aims at German economic benefits and technology development. This, however, negatively influences global sustainability. To counter existing path dependencies, the author provides recommendations for sustainability-oriented scientific practice and science policy.
O-Ton: How can Cevelopment Cooperation be more sensitive to power relations? – Anna Schwachula on www.developmentresearch.eu.
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Kapitel
1 Introduction
2 Science in the context of sustainable development
3 Discourse analysis in a policy setting
4 Research design and methodology
5 Public funding for international research cooperation in Germany
6 Practices of policy production between structural frames, strategies and spaces of agency
7 Friends and foes in science policy
8 The heart of German science policy – and its green lungs
9 Objectives and expectations of the IWRM and Megacities funding initiatives
10 Policy effects – coining realities
11 Conclusions
Appendices
