RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID doi:10.3152/030234209X481987
A1 Pülzl, H.
A1 Rametsteiner, E.
T1 Indicator development as 'boundary spanning' between scientists and policy-makers
JF Science and Public Policy
YR 2009
FD 2009-12-10
VO 36
IS 10
SP 743
OP 752
AB In sustainability impact assessments the development of widely accepted indicators that structure the subject area and provide the framework for assessing sustainability impacts is clearly important. We argue that the development of sustainability indicators in science-based initiatives works across the science/policy interface where social and natural scientists as well as stakeholders and policy-makers both translate concepts and ideas to each other and thus make value judgments about the selection of indicators and related sub-classes. This explains why pure scientific indicator initiatives based on simple ‘knowledge transfer’ models are unlikely to succeed. Instead, sustainability indicator development requires a ‘knowledge transaction model’ which spans the boundary between the scientific and the political domains.
SN 03023427
LK https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13434/