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Language : English
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The benefits of utilizing intermediaries to broker understanding between environmental
scientists and policy makers have become widely touted. Yet little is known about the tasks
boundary spanners undertake to develop environmental policy solutions and how these
tasks fit into frameworks intended to advance public policy decision making. Such frameworks
may be constructed to aid decision makers in differentiating between the types of
environmental policy issues that confront them or the policy settings in which they are
operating. Consequently, this paper examines how six different knowledge brokering
strategies; informing, consulting, matchmaking, engaging, collaborating and building capacity
might be employed in responding to different types of environmental policy problems or
policy settings identified in decision aiding frameworks. Using real world examples, four
frameworks are reviewed. They are; Lindquist’s [Lindquist, E.A., 1988. What do decision
models tell us about information use? Knowledge in Society 1 (2), 86–111; Lindquist, E.A.,
1990. The third community, policy inquiry, and social scientists. In: Stephen Brooks, S.,
Gagnon, A. (Eds.), Social Scientists, Policy and the State. Praeger, New York; Lindquist, E.A.,
2001. Discerning policy influence: framework for a strategic evaluation of IDRC-Supported
research] decision regimes, Turnhout et al.’s [Turnhout, E., Hisschemoller, M., Eijsackers, H.,
2007. Ecological indicators: between the two fires of science and policy. Ecological Indicators
7 (2), 215–228] science policy typology, Holling’s [Holling, C.S., 1995. What barriers? What
bridges? In: Gunderson, L.H., Holling, C.S. (Eds.), Barriers and Bridges to the Renewal of
Ecosystems and Institutions. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 3–34] adaptive cycle
and Kurtz and Snowden’s [Kurtz, C.F., Snowden, D.J., 2003. The new dynamics of strategy:
sense-making in a complex and complicated world. IBM Systems Journal 42 (3), 462–483]
Cynefin domains. For the different problem types or policy settings described in the decision
aiding frameworks primary knowledge brokering strategies are identified. While the frameworks
differ in their conceptual constructions, the applicability of specific knowledge
brokering strategies serve as a commonality across particular problem types and policy
settings.
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Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje
