Exploring the impact of the IPCC Assessment Reports on science

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1052-1061

  Vasileiadou, Eleftheria ^a   Heimeriks, Gaston ^b   Petersen, Arthur C ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disciplinary differences; Geographical differences; Impact; IPCC; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 82655172478     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Agrawala S. Context and early origins of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Climatic Change 1998, 39:605-620.
2. Agrawala S. Structural and process history of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Climatic Change 1998, 39:621-642.
3. Berkhout F. Reconstructing boundaries and reason in the climate debate. Global Environmental Change 2010, 20:565-569.
4. Biermann F. Big science, small impacts in the South? The influence of global environmental assessments on expert communities in India. Global Environmental Change 2001, 11:297-309.
5. Biermann F. Institutions for scientific advice: global environmental assessments and their influence in developing countries. Global Governance 2002, 8:195-219.
6. Bjurström, A., Polk, M., in press. Physical and economic bias in climate change research: a scientometric study of IPCC Third Assessment Report. Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0018-8.
7. Girod B., Wieka A., Mieg H., Hulme M. The evolution of the IPCC's emissions scenarios. Environmental Science & Policy 2009, 12:103-118.
8. Godal O. The IPCC's assessment of multidisciplinary issues: the case of greenhouse gas indices. Climatic Change 2003, 58:243-249.
9. Haas P.M. Science and international environmental governance. Handbook of Global Environmental Politics 2005, 383-401. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. P. Dauvergne (Ed.).
10. Hajer M. Authoritative Governance: Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization 2009, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
11. Heimeriks G.J., Vasileiadou E. Changes or transition? Analysing the use of ICTs in sciences. Social Science Information 2008, 47:5-29.
12. Hiramatsu A., Mimura N., Sumi A. A mapping of global warming research based on IPCC AR4. Sustainability Science 2008, 3:201-213.
13. Climate Change, The IPCC Scientific Assessment 1990, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. J.T. Houghton, C.J. Jenkins, J.J. Ephraums (Eds.).
14. Hulme M. Mediating the messages about climate change: reporting the IPCC Fourth Assessment in the UK print media. Climate Change and the Media 2009, 117-128. Peter Lang, New York. T. Boyce, J. Lewis (Eds.).
15. Hulme M. Why we disagree about climate change. Understanding controversy. Inaction and Opportunity 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
16. Hulme M., Mahoney M. Climate change: What do we know about the IPCC?. Progress in Physical Geography 2010, 34:705-718.
17. Karlsson S., Srebotnjak T., Gonzales P. Understanding the North-South knowledge divide and its implications for policy: a quantitative analysis of the generation of scientific knowledge in the environmental sciences. Environmental Science & Policy 2007, 10:668-684.
18. Kiparsky M., Brooks C., Gleick P.H. Do regional disparities in research on climate and water influence adaptive capacity?. Climatic Change 2006, 77:375.
19. Kling, R., Swyngart-Hobaugh, A.J., 2002. The Internet and the Velocity of Scholarly Journal Publishing. In: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/html/2022/148/WP02-12B.html (Ed.). Working Paper.
20. Lahsen M. Trust through participation? Problems of knowledge in climate decision-making. The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses 2007, 173-196. Ashgate, Aldershot.
21. Leiserowitz, A., Maibach, E.W., Roser-Renouf, C., Smith, N., Dawson, E., 2010. Climategate, Public Opinion, and the Loss of Trust. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1633932.
22. Malone E.L., Rayner S. Role of the research standpoint in integrating global-scale and local-scale research. Climate Research 2001, 19:173-178.
23. Mayer M., Arndt F.J. The politics of socionatures: images of environmental foreign policy. Environmental Change and Foreign Policy: Theory And Practice 2009, 74-89. Routledge, London. P.G. Harris (Ed.).
24. Moed H.F. Citation Analysis in Research Evaluation 2005, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
25. Nerlich B. Climategate: paradoxical metaphors and political paralysis. Environmental Values 2010, 19:419-442.
26. Patt A.G., Gwata C. Effective seasonal climate forecast applications: examining constraints for subsistence farmers in Zimbabwe. Global Environmental Change 2002, 12:185-195.
27. PBL, 2010. Assessing an IPCC assessment. An analysis of statements on projected regional impacts in the 2007 report. Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bilthoven/the Hague.
28. Petersen A.C. Simulating Nature: A Philosophical Study of Computer-Simulation Uncertainties and Their Role in Climate Science and Policy Advice 2006, Het Spinhuis Publishers, Appeldoorn and Antwerpen.
29. Schiermeier Q. IPCC flooded by criticism. Nature News 2010, 463:596-597.
30. Siebenhüner B. How do scientific assessments learn? Part 1. Conceptual framework and case study of the IPCC. Environmental Science & Policy 2002, 5:411-420.
31. Smit B., Pilifosova O. Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability 2001, 877-912. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. J.J. McCarthy, O.F. Canziani, N.A. Leary, D.J. Dokken, K.S. White (Eds.).
32. Stanhill G. The growth of climate change science: a scientometric study. Climatic Change 2001, 48:515-524.
33. Climate Change: The IPCC Impacts Assessment 1990, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. W.J.M. Tegart, G.W. Sheldon, D.C. Griffiths (Eds.).
34. van den Bergh J.C.J.M., Faber A., Idenburg A.M., Oosterhuis F.H. Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Policy. Survival of the Greenest 2007, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
35. Van der Meulen B., Rip A. Mediation in the Dutch science system. Research Policy 1998, 27:757-769.
36. Vasileiadou E., Van den Besselaar P. Linking shallow, linking deep; How scientific intermediaries use the Web for their network of collaborators. Cybermetrics 2006, 10.
37. Wagner C. The New Invisible College: Science for Development 2008, Brookings Institution Press.
38. Wagner C., Roessner J., Bobb K., Klein J., Boyack K., Keyton J., Rafols I., Börner K. Approaches to understanding and measuring interdisciplinary scientific research (IDR): a review of the literature. Journal of Informetrics 2011, 165:14-26.
39. Yearley S. Sociology and climate change after Kyoto: what roles for social science in understanding climate change?. Current Sociology 2009, 57:389-405.