Presentation
Assessing the Potential for Policy Responses to Climate Change
2002 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
(2002)
Abstract
Our research examines the role of knowledge and policy oriented belief systems in climate change decision-making within Canadian Prairie policy regimes. An online survey of over 700 policy elites in agricultural, forestry and water sectors examined policy relevant belief systems and considered the probable policy responses to climate change and related scientific information. Several bodies of scholarship were employed to develop this research. In particular, the policy community/network analysis and the advocacy coalition framework models, as well as risk perception research were utilised. Policy networks that identify knowledge and power exchanges are identified using similar methods employed by Knoke, Laumann and other European social scientists. This network analysis is combined with another body of research, the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). The ACF examines policy change according to a set of well-defined research hypotheses that describes the role and relevance of policy oriented beliefs. In this study both the results of the research are presented as well as commentary on the role of methods required to understand the inter-relationships between regional, national and international policy actors in influencing the decision-making process in other contexts.
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2002
Location
Berlin, Germany
Citation Information
Debra J. Davidson, Adam Wellstead and Richard Stedman. "Assessing the Potential for Policy Responses to Climate Change" 2002 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (2002) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/adam-wellstead/67/