In person icon The Uses of Knowledge in Environmental Disaster Management and Prevention

Abstract

This panel is designed to bring together a series of papers focusing on policy makers´ acquisition and use of evidence based research, or scientific knowledge derived from systematic research methods and analyses. The panel papers explore whether and how evidence based research, for example, descriptive studies, intervention or evaluation studies, meta-analyses, and cost effectiveness studies is used by policy makers, bureaucrats and elected officials. The papers in this panel examine the intersection of disaster and other related policy domains and evidence-based decision making at any point in the policy process, from using scientific knowledge during the process of defining a problem, to developing alternative solutions and measuring their probable impact, to evaluating outcomes, to recommending ways to re-design a policy in light of implementation problems. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines using a variety of research methods address questions such as: Why do some policy makers acquire and use research based knowledge while others do not? At what point in the policy process are the results of scientific research most likely to be used? When acquired and used, how and how well is scientific knowledge actually used and does it make a difference? How is RBK use affected by written and oral communications between scientists and policy makers? Why do policy makers ignore or mis-use scientific research?

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