Urban climatological research informing environmental policy and planning in Fukuoka, Japan: What makes an epistemic community successful locally?

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60460709:41320/24:100345 RIV/60460709:41320/25:N0000004

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Urban climatological research informing environmental policy and planning in Fukuoka, Japan: What makes an epistemic community successful locally?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Urban climatological research informing environmental policy and planning in Fukuoka, Japan: What makes an epistemic community successful locally?

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Environmental Policy and Governance

ISSN

1756-932X

e-ISSN

1756-9338

Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

246-261

Kód UT WoS článku

001360593100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85209899652