Urban climatological research informing environmental policy and planning in Fukuoka, Japan: What makes an epistemic community successful locally?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020702%3A_____%2F25%3AN0000001" target="_blank" >RIV/00020702:_____/25:N0000001 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/24:100345 RIV/60460709:41320/25:N0000004
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2139" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/eet.2139</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eet.2139" target="_blank" >10.1002/eet.2139</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Urban climatological research informing environmental policy and planning in Fukuoka, Japan: What makes an epistemic community successful locally?
Original language description
Interest in knowledge politics driving urban environmental policy is growing. The aim of this paper is to assess the conditions that enable an epistemic community of experts to influence policy in a specific locality. We evaluate an epistemic community of urban climatology researchers in Fukuoka, Japan, who have successfully engaged with local policy despite documented knowledge circulation failures for urban climatology elsewhere. The research is based on a process tracing-derived methodology, analysing archival and documentary sources. Its results show the epistemic community has conducted observational and modelling-based research in Fukuoka over decades, networking with peers across Japan and globally and making recommendations for policy interventions locally through government expert committees and collaborative projects. These findings reflect the importance of professionalisation and modes of persuasion – especially visuals, such as maps showing heat islands – in explaining how epistemic communities come to be effective. We argue, however, that institutions constitute epistemic communities as well as individuals. The conclusions display, however, that even if an epistemic community is effective in influencing policy, this will not necessarily translate into practical interventions in the built environment. Understanding how epistemic communities define and measure their own ‘success’ is thus an area for future research.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Policy and Governance
ISSN
1756-932X
e-ISSN
1756-9338
Volume of the periodical
35
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
246-261
UT code for WoS article
001360593100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85209899652