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Science-practice interactions linked to climate adaptation in two contexts: municipal planning and forestry in Sweden

This paper examines the science-practice interface in the process of adapting to climate change in society.

Karin André / Published on 17 December 2013

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André, K. & Jonsson, A.C (2015). Science-practice interactions linked to climate adaptation in two contexts: municipal planning and forestry in Sweden. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 58(2):297-314.

The authors analyze science-based stakeholder dialogues with climate scientists, municipal officers and private individual forest owners in Sweden, and examine how local experts both share scientific knowledge and experience and integrate it into their work strategies and practices.

The results demonstrate how local experts jointly conceptualise climate adaptation, how scientific knowledge is domesticated among local experts in dialogue with scientific experts, the emergence of anchoring devices, and the boundary-spanning functions that are at work in the respective sectors.

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Karin André
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