Bridging the Science-Policy Gap: Rethinking the Nexus

Session: 22. - How to Talk Science so Policy will Listen, and Listen so Science will Talk?

Kathryn Friedman U Buffalo - SUNY Friedman, U Buffalo - SUNY, [email protected]

Abstract

Many Great Lakes stakeholders are of the view that policy should be informed by science and data in order to produce effective results.  Achieving evidence-based policy and programming, however, is in reality quite difficult.  My presentation will present 1) preliminary findings from research on the science-policy nexus with respect to Lake Ontario eutrophication; 2) insights gleaned from other water contexts to tighten the nexus; and 3) my current perspective on the need to rethink the science-policy nexus to better contribute to the policy process.

1. Keyword
policy making

4. Additional Keyword
science-policy nexus