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Books
- Pia M. Kohler. Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance: Expert Institutions and the Implementation of International Environmental Treaties (Nov, 2019)
- Paul Cairney, The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making, Palgrave Macmillan UK (2016)
- Martin Kowarsch, A Pragmatist Orientation for the Social Sciences in Climate Policy, Springer (2016)
- Tateo Arimoto, Yasushi Sato, Keiko Matsuo & Hiroyuki Yoshikawa: Scientific Advice, Science, Technology, and Policy Making in the Twenty-First Century, University of Tokyo Press (2016) ISBN 978-4-13-060316-4.
- Justin Parkhurst: The Politics of Evidence, Routledge (2016). From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence.
- Simon Bastow et al: The Impact of the Social Sciences: How Academics and Their Research Make a Difference, Sage (2014). Recommended by Phil Campbell, Editor in Chief of Nature
- Heather Douglas: Science, Policy and the Value-Free Ideal, University of Pittsburgh Press (2009). Douglas explores the role of values in science and the inadequacy of the ideal that science can and should be values-free.
- Sheila Jasanoff: Science and Public Reason, Routledge (2012). Jasanoff examines how democratic governments make use of evidence and argument to legitimize decisions and be accountable to citizens.
- Roger Pielke: The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics, Cambridge University Press (2007). Pielke examines the range of options of roles that scientists can play in policy and politics.
- William T. Golden (ed.): Science Advice to the President, AAAS Press, 2nd Edition (1993)
- William T. Golden (ed): Worldwide Science and Technology Advice to the Highest Levels of Government, Pergamon (1991)
- Bruce L.R. Smith: The Advisers: Scientists in the Policy Process, Brookings (1992)
Journal articles & special editions
- Flink, Tim, Taking the pulse of science diplomacy and developing practices of valuation, Science and Public Policy, 2021;, scab074, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab074
- Saltelli, Andrea, Dorothy J. Dankel, Monica Di Fiore, Nina Holland, and Martin Pigeon. 2021.Science, the Endless Frontier of Regulatory Capture. Futures, October 2021
- Yekaterina Y. Kontara, Alik Ismail-Zadeh et al Knowledge exchange through science diplomacy to assist disaster risk reduction Progress in Disaster Science Volume 11, October 2021
- Justin Parkhurst et al. Understanding evidence use from a programmatic perspective: conceptual development and empirical insights from national malaria control programmes. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, Sept 2020
- Peter D. Gluckman, Anne Bardsley & Matthias Kaiser. Brokerage at the science–policy interface: from conceptual framework to practical guidance. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Mar 19 2021
- Gian Delgardo Ramos. Accelerating climate research and action in cities through advanced science-policy-practice partnerships – npj Urban Sustain 1, 3 (2021). 23rd Feb 2021
- Temilade Sesan, Willie Siyanbola. “These are the realities”: insights from facilitating researcher-policymaker engagement in Nigeria’s household energy sector – 16th March 2021
- Pierre-Bruno Ruffini. Conceptualizing science diplomacy in the practitioner-driven literature: a critical review. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Oct 14 2020
Naomi Eisenstadt. Evidence-based policy and other myths. What researchers need to know to influence government. LSE, Sept 22 2020
Paul Arthur Berkman, 2020. Science Diplomacy and Its Engine of Informed Decisionmaking: Operating through Our Global Pandemic with Humanity, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Volume 15: Issue 3
Peter Messerli, Eun Mee Kim, Wolfgang Lutz et al, 2019. Expansion of sustainability science needed for the SDGs, Nature Sustainability (Sept, 2019)
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Mariana Mazzucato, Dirk Messner, Nebojsa Nakicenovic & Johan Rockström, 2019. Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Nature Sustainability (August 2019)
Paul Arthur Berkman, 2019. Evolution of Science Diplomacy and its Local-Global Applications, European Foreign Affairs Review (July 2019)
Rita R. Colwell & Gary E. Machlis, Science During Crisis: Best Practices, Research Needs, and Policy Priorities American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Jan, 2019)
Kathryn Oliver & Paul Cairney, The dos and don’ts of influencing policy: systematic review of advice to academies Palgrave Communications
Jean Lebel, Robert McLean, 2018. A better measure of research from the global south Nature 559, 23-26 (2018) | doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05581-4
Gluckman P. The role of evidence and expertise in policy-making: the politics and practice of science advice Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. 151, part 1, 2018, pp.91–101. ISSN 0035-9173/18/010091-11
Christl A. Donnelly, Ian Boyd, Philip Campbell, Claire Craig, Patrick Vallance, Mark Walport, Christopher J. M. Whitty, Emma Woods & Chris Wormald, 2018. Four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy Nature 558, 361-364 (2018) | doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05414-4
Deluyker H, 2017. Is scientific assessment a scientific discipline? EFSA Journal 2017;15(11):e15111, 51 pp.
Kowarsch, M., Jabbour, J., Flachsland, C., Kok, M.T.J., Watson, Sir R., Haas, P.M., et al. (2017). A road map for global environmental assessments. Nature Climate Change 7(6), pp.379-382.
Jeffrey Hutchings and Nils Stenseth: Communication of Science Advice to Government. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, January 2016, Vol. 31, No. 1.
OECD – Scientific Advice for Policy Making: The Role and Responsibility of Expert Bodies and Individual Scientists (April 2015)
Arthur C. Petersen : The Ethos of scientific advice: a pragmatist approach to uncertainty and ignorance in science and public policy. Published in H. de Regt and C. Kwa, eds. (2014), Building Bridges: Connecting Science, Technology and Philosophy – Essays presented to Hans Radder, Amsterdam: VU University Press, pp. 53–62.
Ottomar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch: Cartography of pathways: A new model for environmental policy assessments. Environmental Science & Policy 51: 56-64 (2015)
- Robert Doubleday and James Wilsdon: Beyond the great and the good. Nature 485: 301-302 (2012)
Claire Dunlop: The temporal dimension of knowledge and the limits of policy appraisal: biofuels policy in the UK. Policy Sciences 43: 343-363 (2010). Political paper recommended by Brian Collins that describes the brokering function between government, science and policy.
Heather Douglas: Inserting the public into science. In Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart (eds), Democratization of Expertise: Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making – Sociology of the Sciences vol 24, pp 153–169 (2005)
- Jack Stilgoe, Simon Lock & James Wilsdon: Why should we promote public engagement with science? Public Understanding of Science 23: 4-15 (2014)
Research Fortnight: Chief Scientist World: Global Science Advice special, Auckland, August 2014 (2014). Special supplement from Research Fortnight, an independent source of news, analysis, funding opportunities and jobs for the academic community.
From University of Waterloo, article by Heather Douglas: Scientific Integrity in a Politicized World