Science for Policy Handbook

Features:

• Covers the vital area of science for policymaking
• Includes contributions from leading practitioners from the Joint Research Centre/European Commission
• Provides key skills based on the science-policy interface needed for effective evidence-informed policymaking
• Presents processes of knowledge production relevant for a more holistic science-policy relationship, along with the types of knowledge that are useful in policymaking

Table Of Contents:

SECTION I: Science for Policy

1. 0: Deficit Model

1. Against the Science-Policy Binary Separation: Science for Policy

1. 0

2. Post-Normal Science: How Does It Resonate With the World of Today?

SECTION II: Science for Policy

2. 0: Co-creation

3. Institutional Framework for the Science–Policy Interaction

4. Skills for Co-creation

5. Achieving Policy Impact

6. From a Policy Problem to a Research Question: Getting It Right Together

7. Working Through Communities

8. Engaging With Citizens

9. The Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges to Modernise the Policy Cycle

10. Navigating Interests in a Science for Policy Environment

SECTION III: Backbone tools of Science for Policy

2. 0

11. Complexity Science in the Context of Policymaking

12. Foresight - Using Science and Evidence to Anticipate and Shape the Future

13. Design for Policy

14. Monitoring the Impact of Science and Evidence on Policy

SECTION IV: Science for Policy

2. 0 in Specific Areas

16. Knowledge-Based Crisis and Emergency Management

17. Behavioural Insights for EU Policymaking

18. The Use of Quantitative Methods in the Policy Cycle

19. Place-Based Solutions to Territorial Challenges: How Policy and Research Can Support Successful Ecosystems