Event Title
Conference on China and Global Climate Change : Reconciling International Fairness and Protection of the Atmospheric Commons
Location
AM310, Lingnan University
Start Date
19-6-2009 11:00 AM
End Date
19-6-2009 12:30 PM
Language
English
Description
As science increasingly plays a vital role in global environmental governance, localness has become the focus in scientific interpretation of nature in terms of policy legitimacy and social communication. However, localness would not germinate until the issue of global change is linked locally, a social construction process which shapes the way of interpreting nature/society interaction and affects local ecological cognition. Localness thus indicates not only legitimacy but also an imperative for responsive actions in a society. It might be argued that although political consideration, with special respect to its stance in international negotiation, determines the extent to which national policy complies with environmental orders set by global regimes, local relevance established in domestic knowledge communication can facilitate policy adjustment. It is therefore crucial for further understanding the emerging and absence of the issues evolved in research agendas. This paper focuses on global warming issues in China and Taiwan for the purpose of mutual reference, and analyzes how ecological localness evolved in the problematization of climate science. Co-word analysis is employed to depict and evaluate the issue structure of the scientific domains and to highlight the relevant local issues which might be taken up by the local scientific community in order to fulfill its accountability as regards place-based communication.
Document Type
Presentation
Recommended Citation
Chen, S.-J. (2009). Ecological localness and legitimacy of science policy: Mapping climate issue in research over China and Taiwan. In China and global climate change: Proceedings of the conference held at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 18-19 June 2009 (pp. 485-501). Centre for Asian Pacific Studies and the Environmental Studies Programme, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
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Ecological localness and legitimacy of science policy : mapping climate issue in research over China and Taiwan
AM310, Lingnan University
As science increasingly plays a vital role in global environmental governance, localness has become the focus in scientific interpretation of nature in terms of policy legitimacy and social communication. However, localness would not germinate until the issue of global change is linked locally, a social construction process which shapes the way of interpreting nature/society interaction and affects local ecological cognition. Localness thus indicates not only legitimacy but also an imperative for responsive actions in a society. It might be argued that although political consideration, with special respect to its stance in international negotiation, determines the extent to which national policy complies with environmental orders set by global regimes, local relevance established in domestic knowledge communication can facilitate policy adjustment. It is therefore crucial for further understanding the emerging and absence of the issues evolved in research agendas. This paper focuses on global warming issues in China and Taiwan for the purpose of mutual reference, and analyzes how ecological localness evolved in the problematization of climate science. Co-word analysis is employed to depict and evaluate the issue structure of the scientific domains and to highlight the relevant local issues which might be taken up by the local scientific community in order to fulfill its accountability as regards place-based communication.