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Dr. Wil Burns, Associate Director Master of Science, Energy Policy & Climate Program Johns Hopkins University 1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036 650.281.9126 (Mobile) 202.452.8713 (Fax) http://energy.jhu.edu Skype ID: Wil.Burns Blog: Teaching Climate/Energy Law & Policy, <http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org/> http://www.teachingclimatelaw.org From: bounce-1377044-246...@lists.iisd.ca [mailto:bounce-1377044-246...@lists.iisd.ca] On Behalf Of Martina Blum Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 1:26 AM To: Climate Change Info Mailing List Subject: FYI - Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise Dear Climate-L readers, global expert organizations – like the IPCC or the IPBES – are driven by assumptions such as the ideal of neutral scientific advice, the intergovernmental status, and consensus-based procedures. To prevent organizational paralysis, these assumptions need to be challenged. In their open access article “Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise” Silke Beck et al. suggest to rethink the role and design of global expert organizations. Acknowledging that a one-size-fits-all model does not exist, the authors suggest a reflexive turn that implies treating the governance of expertise as a matter of political contestation. Towards a Reflexive Turn in the Governance of Global Environmental Expertise. The Cases of the IPCC and the IPBES Silke Beck, Maud Borie, Jason Chilvers, Alejandro Esguerra, Katja Heubach, Mike Hulme, Rolf Lidskog, Eva Loevbrand, Elisabeth Marquard, Clark Miller, Tahani Nadim, Carsten Nesshoever, Josef Settele, Esther Turnhout, Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Christoph Goerg GAIA 23/2 (2014), pp. 80-87 http://www.oekom.de/fileadmin/zeitschriften/gaia_leseproben/GAIA2_2014_080_087_Beck.pdf We take the liberty to add a further note on our behalf: The Gaia Society, the editors, Editorial Board and editorial office would like to extend their congratulations to Vaclav Smil for winning this year’s GAIA Best Paper Award, and to Thomas Jahn and Hugh S. Gorman, the two runners-up. All three articles provide stimulating thoughts on key issues of environmental change and sustainable development. They can be accessed free online: Vaclav Smil, Reducing the Carbon and Sulfur Load of the Atmosphere. Assessing Global Decarbonization and Desulfurization and the Future of a Low-Carbon World http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oekom/gaia/2013/00000022/00000004/art00010 Thomas Jahn, Wissenschaft für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung braucht eine kritische Orientierung http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oekom/gaia/2013/00000022/00000001/art00009 Hugh S. Gorman, Learning from 100 Years of Ammonia Synthesis. Establishing Human-Defined Limits through Adaptive Systems of Governance http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oekom/gaia/2013/00000022/00000004/art00011 For more information see http://www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia/best-paper-award.html GAIA – Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society is an inter- and transdisciplinary journal for scientists and other interested parties concerned with the causes and analyses of environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions (www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia <http://www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia> ). GAIA is listed in the Social Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded. GAIA invites article submissions related to inter- or transdisciplinary environmental and sustainability research. For further information see www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia/submission-guidelines.html <http://www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia/submission-guidelines.html> . The latest GAIA-Newsletter is available here www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia/gaia-newsletter.html <http://www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia/gaia-newsletter.html> . With kind regards, martina blum -- Dr. Martina Blum oekom verlag Redaktion GAIA Waltherstr. 29 D-80337 München Fon: +49 (0)89/544 184-44 E-Mail: b...@oekom.de <mailto:b...@oekom.de> www.oekom.de/gaia <http://www.oekom.de/gaia> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- oekom verlag GmbH – Geschäftsführer Jacob Radloff – Amtsgericht München HRB 102023 _____ You are currently subscribed to climate-l as: <mailto:williamcgbu...@comcast.net> williamcgbu...@comcast.net <https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=climate-l> View climate-l Forum <https://lists.iisd.ca/read/login/?forum=climate-l> Membership Options / Unsubscribe _____ Subscribe to all other IISD Reporting Services' free newsletters and lists for environment and sustainable development policy professionals at http://www.iisd.ca/email/subscribe.htm _____ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
