Table 3 Overview of criteria for science-policy interfaces responding to wicked policy issues, distilled from building blocks of deliberative policy learning
From: Scientific assessments to facilitate deliberative policy learning
Building block | Criteria for SPIs | |
|---|---|---|
Representation | Incorporating wide variety of viewpoints and stakeholders | Input side |
Incorporating wide variety of scientific insights and disciplines | Input side | |
Empowerment | Critically scrutinizing access barriers; supporting development of policy options and scenarios reflecting marginalized viewpoints | Input side |
Critically scrutinizing requirements to adequately participate; organizational support throughout the process | During the process | |
Capacity building | Building internal capacity of participants: knowledge integration and synthesis | During the process |
Realizing external capacity building: providing knowledge about implications of alternative policy pathways, disclosing key uncertainties and normative assumptions | Output side | |
Spaces for deliberation | Realizing continuous and iterative face-to-face deliberation | During the process |
Realizing vertical and horizontal linkage of spaces for deliberation | Input and output side | |
