The gap between climate evidence and climate action is striking. It is also not unique: knowledge of problems and solutions often outweighs substantive responses for other complex societal challenges such as poverty or violence. This project seeks to bring together insights from social scientific researchers and practitioners across a variety of issue areas to map the channels that connect knowledge to action, identify common ways in which they break down, and develop a menu of ways for researchers, policymakers, and institutional designers to strengthen the flow of evidence into action. The identified methods for inspiring action will be disseminated to science-policy practitioner communities and can be used to generate new curricular materials for graduate and undergraduate classes.
Participants
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Rene Almeling
Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, American Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Public Health; and Medicine
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Jessica Seddon
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment and Global Affairs
