River restoration is one of the most prominent areas of applied water‐resources science.
From an initial focus on enhancing fish habitat or river appearance, primarily through …

▪ Abstract It is now commonplace to assert that actions toward sustainable development
require a mix of scientific, economic, social and political knowledge, and judgments. The …

There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public
policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the …

Changing relations between science and democracy–and controversies over issues such as
climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies …

Performance measurement and management (PMM) is a management and research
paradox. On one hand, it provides management with many critical, useful, and needed …

The sustainability of regional development can be usefully explored through several
different lenses. In situations in which uncertainties and change are key features of the …

I use the example of the 2000 US Presidential election to show that political controversies
with technical underpinnings are not resolved by technical means. Then, drawing from …

We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society.
Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested …

Many studies on evidence-based policy are still clinging to a linear model. Instead, we
propose to understand expertise and evidence as 'socially embedded'in authority relations …

In this paper, we describe an experiment in which the position of scientists with respect to
flood risk management is fundamentally changed. Building on a review of three very …