President Joko Widodo, during a foresters’ reunion at the Faculty of Forestry-Universitas Gadjah Mada in December 2017– expressed his concerns about deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia. Talking about the roles of scientists and academia, he was implicitly asking: “Where have you been?” He clearly expected them to show their contribution through producing “impact science”. This offers chances to channel their expertise and gain greater influence in policy-making processes. In fairness, a remarkable number of research programs, networks and collaboration across scientific disciplines have endeavoured to formulate viable strategies for wise use and responsible management of forests (Maryudi & Sahide 2017), although some (e.g. Kar...
The paper applies a broad-brush perspective to policy change processes, forestry research and innova...
This paper compares and contrasts some of the science and public perceptions of the role of forests ...
What does the forest science-policy interface in Ghana look like? For some time now policy makers ha...
President Joko Widodo, during a foresters’ reunion at the Faculty of Forestry-Universitas Gadjah Mad...
Linking scientific knowledge with political decision-making has never been an easy task. This is als...
From an already rich experience of cooperation between scientists and policy makers in the framework...
There is growing interest – and need – among researchers and research organizations to contribute so...
In national and international forest-related policy processes, it has been widely recognized that de...
This Bulletin attempts to link two sets of pressing contemporary concerns. On the one hand, it addre...
If scientific knowledge is to influence international environmental policy it needs to be recognised...
Science cannot directly influence policy without a process of knowledge transfer and integration int...
‘Does research in collaboration with partners has any impact on shaping global forest policy?’ is a ...
In present day knowledge societies political decisions are often justified on the basis of scientifi...
There is a need to better understand how scientific knowledge is used in decision-making. This is es...
1. It is necessary to improve knowledge exchange between scientists and decision‐makers so that scie...
The paper applies a broad-brush perspective to policy change processes, forestry research and innova...
This paper compares and contrasts some of the science and public perceptions of the role of forests ...
What does the forest science-policy interface in Ghana look like? For some time now policy makers ha...
President Joko Widodo, during a foresters’ reunion at the Faculty of Forestry-Universitas Gadjah Mad...
Linking scientific knowledge with political decision-making has never been an easy task. This is als...
From an already rich experience of cooperation between scientists and policy makers in the framework...
There is growing interest – and need – among researchers and research organizations to contribute so...
In national and international forest-related policy processes, it has been widely recognized that de...
This Bulletin attempts to link two sets of pressing contemporary concerns. On the one hand, it addre...
If scientific knowledge is to influence international environmental policy it needs to be recognised...
Science cannot directly influence policy without a process of knowledge transfer and integration int...
‘Does research in collaboration with partners has any impact on shaping global forest policy?’ is a ...
In present day knowledge societies political decisions are often justified on the basis of scientifi...
There is a need to better understand how scientific knowledge is used in decision-making. This is es...
1. It is necessary to improve knowledge exchange between scientists and decision‐makers so that scie...
The paper applies a broad-brush perspective to policy change processes, forestry research and innova...
This paper compares and contrasts some of the science and public perceptions of the role of forests ...
What does the forest science-policy interface in Ghana look like? For some time now policy makers ha...