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Science for Policy Handbook. Eds. Vladimír Šucha and Marta Sienkiewicz. Elsevier, 2020. 

Science for Policy Handbook provides advice on how to bring science to the attention of policymakers. The handbook is dedicated to researchers and research organisations aiming to achieve policy impact.

Today we face major policy challenges, which cannot be solved without scientific evidence. Science and policy are different worlds, but they must collaborate closely in order to address wicked problems of our age.

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service, with a mission to bring science and knowledge into EU policymaking. Over the past years, it has embraced new types of knowledge and practices in order to increase the impact of research on European policies. The Science for Policy Handbook presents the lessons learnt along the way, applicable not just in the EU context.

The book puts together advice on new skills and practices for individual researchers, but also discusses elements of institutional change – knowledge areas and processes in which to invest. It puts co-creation at the centre of Science for Policy 2.0, a more integrated model of knowledge-policy relationship.

Key Features

• Covers the vital area of science for policymaking
• Includes contributions from leading practitioners from the Joint Research Centre/European Commission
• Based around key skills for practitioners at the science-policy interface, needed for effective evidence-informed policymaking
• Presents processes of knowledge production relevant for a more holistic science-policy relationship, as well as particularly sought after types of knowledge useful in policymaking

Contents

Section I - Science for Policy 1.0: Deficit Model

• Chapter 1 - Against the Science–Policy Binary Separation: Science for Policy 1.0 | Marta Sienkiewicz and David Mair

• Chapter 2 - Post-Normal Science: How Does It Resonate With the World of Today? | Silvio Funtowicz and Jerry Ravetz

Section II - Science for Policy 2.0: Co-creation

• Chapter 3 - Institutional Framework for the Science–Policy Interaction | Vladimír Šucha and Marion Dewar

• Chapter 4 - Skills for Co-creation | Lene Topp, David Mair, ... Paul Cairney

• Chapter 5 - Achieving Policy Impact | Marta Sienkiewicz, Pieter van Nes and Marie-Agnes Deleglise

• Chapter 6 - From a Policy Problem to a Research Question: Getting It Right Together | Marta Sienkiewicz

• Chapter 7 - Working Through Communities | Coralia Catana

• Chapter 8 - Engaging With Citizens | Ângela Guimarães Pereira and Thomas Völker

• Chapter 9 - The Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Challenges to Modernise the Policy Cycle | Massimo Craglia, Jiri Hradec and Xavier Troussard

• Chapter 10 - Navigating Interests in a Science for Policy Environment | Marta Sienkiewicz, Marton Hajdu, ... Marie-Agnes Deleglise

Section III - Backbone tools of Science for Policy 2.0

• Chapter 11 - Complexity Science in the Context of Policymaking | Vera Calenbuhr

• Chapter 12 - Foresight – Using Science and Evidence to Anticipate and Shape the Future | Eckhard Störmer, Laurent Bontoux, ... Fabiana Scapolo

• Chapter 13 - Design for Policy | Jennifer-Ellen Rudkin and Alessandro Rancati

• Chapter 14 - Monitoring the Impact of Science and Evidence on Policy | Daniel Neicu, Jonathan Cauchi, ... Jorge Costa Dantas Faria

• Chapter 15 - Communicating Science in a Policy Context to a Broader Audience | Marton Hajdu and Catherine Simoneau

Section IV - Science for Policy 2.0 in Specific Areas

• Chapter 16 - Knowledge-Based Crisis and Emergency Management | Tom De Groeve

• Chapter 17 - Behavioural Insights for EU Policymaking | René van Bavel

• Chapter 18 - The Use of Quantitative Methods in the Policy Cycle | Giuseppe Munda, Daniel Albrecht, ... Michaela Saisana

• Chapter 19 - Place-Based Solutions to Territorial Challenges: How Policy and Research Can Support Successful Ecosystems | Albane Demblans, Manuel Palazuelos Martínez and Carlo Lavalle