Authors
Esther Turnhout, Art Dewulf, Mike Hulme
Publication date
2016/2/1
Source
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume
18
Pages
65-72
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- The effects of making environmental knowledge that is both global and policy-relevant are discussed.
- Global knowledge influences what gets governed, and by whom, and supports specific forms of power.
- The concepts of global temperature and ecosystem services are used to seek policy-relevance.
- Packaging knowledge in categories to make it relevant for policy is not a neutral activity.
- The performativity of knowledge implies that being policy relevant inevitably is to be policy prescriptive.
There is a surge in global knowledge-making efforts to inform environmental governance. This article synthesises the current state of the art of social science scholarship about the generation and use of global environmental knowledge. We focus specifically on the issues of scale—providing globalized representations of the environment—and relevance—providing knowledge in a form that is considered usable for …
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E Turnhout, A Dewulf, M Hulme - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2016