Title Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence : Understanding the Tensions between Politics and Expertise in Public Policy / Peter Tangney

Edition First edition Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF Series Science in society series Science in society series. Contents Introduction -- Science, evidence, and public policy -- Queensland, Australia, and the UK : comparing the pursuit of climate adaptation in liberal democracies -- Climate adaptation evidence for policy -- Knowledge systems for sustainability -- Perceptions of the usefulness and usability of climate science and evidence for policy -- The politicisation and scientisation of climate risk management -- Evidence needs for adaptation policymaking -- Reconciling tensions between experts, evidence, and politics Summary "Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations. Under the evidence-based mandate, both experts and non-experts often assume that policy problems are sufficiently tractable and that experts can provide impartial and usable advice to government so that problems like climate change adaptation can be effectively addressed; at least, where there is political will to do so. This book compares the politics and science informing climate adaptation policy in Australia and the UK to understand how realistic these expectations are in practice. At a time when both academics and practitioners have repeatedly called for more and better science to anticipate climate change impacts and, thereby, to effectively adapt, this book explains why a dearth of useful expert evidence about future climate is not the most pressing problem. Even when it is sufficiently credible and relevant for decision-making, climate science is often ignored or politicised to ensure the evidence-based mandate is coherent with prevailing political, economic and epistemic ideals. There are other types of policy knowledge too that are, arguably, much more important. This comparative analysis reveals what the politics of climate change mean for both the development of useful evidence and for the practice of evidence-based policymaking."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Climatic changes -- Political aspects Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Australia Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Great Britain Climatic changes -- Social aspects Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Australia Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Great Britain SCIENCE -- Environmental Science. SCIENCE -- Global Warming & Climate Change. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Climatic changes -- Political aspects. Climatic changes -- Social aspects. Australia. Great Britain. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315269252 1315269252 9781351978491 1351978497

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