{"id":1208,"date":"2012-06-02T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2012\/06\/02\/batesglasersdg2012\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:25:15","slug":"batesglasersdg2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/batesglasersdg2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Science-Policy Links for Global Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/fileadmin\/files\/ICSU Science Policy Final.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 1px dotted #ffc944; float: left;\" alt=\"ICSU-Science-Policy-Final-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stakeholderforum.org\/sf\/images\/stories\/ICSU-Science-Policy-Final-1.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"126\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>By Peter Bates PhD and Gisbert Glaser PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This  paper argues that policy-setting and implementation should be based on  the best available knowledge. There should thus be an intimate  connection between the scientific and policy making communities. Such a  connection will help make research and scientific information more  policy-relevant, and policy development and implementation more science  based.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts  to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development at  all levels, and international environmental governance institutions,  must include strengthening of science-policy links, as existing and new  institutions require access to the best scientific knowledge available.  This includes knowledge in the social and economic sciences, as well as  interaction with research communities worldwide. This also requires  criteria for good &#8216;science for policy&#8217;, including scientific quality and  credibility; policy relevance and coherence, and legitimacy in a  political context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Bates PhD and Gisbert Glaser PhD This paper argues that policy-setting and implementation should be based on the best available knowledge. There should thus be an intimate connection between the scientific and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdgthinkpieces"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}