What is it about?
The study maps how the epistemic community's expertise matters locally. We focus on a group of climatology researchers in Fukuoka, Japan, who successfully interacted with local political actors to shape urban planning in the context of climate change.
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Why is it important?
We used the process tracing methodology to examine the causal mechanism for epistemic communities' activity in urban planning in Fukuoka City. This approach allowed us to uncover the mechanisms of forming the epistemic community of urban planners and the final implementation of urban plans and policies. Key Takeaways: - Consolidating an expert community's internal resources and will to exert effective influence in the policy process can take several decades. - The institutional tradition, goals and support for individual actions of experts may significantly enhance their recognition among political actors. - The long-term effectiveness of epistemic interventions is questionable.
Perspectives
I hope this article will encourage other authors to share their collaborative outputs about policy expertise at a local level, having a complex comparative perspective across climatological regions in the future.
Miloslav Machoň
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This page is a summary of: Urban climatological research informing environmental policy and planning in Fukuoka, Japan: What makes an epistemic community successful locally?, Environmental Policy and Governance, November 2024, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/eet.2139.
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