Geographical imbalances and divides in the scientific production of climate change knowledge
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Geographical imbalances and divides in the scientific production of climate change knowledge. / Pasgaard, Maya; Dalsgaard, Bo; Maruyama, Pietro K.; Sandel, Brody; Strange, Niels.
I: Global Environmental Change, Bind 35, 2015, s. 279-288.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Geographical imbalances and divides in the scientific production of climate change knowledge
AU - Pasgaard, Maya
AU - Dalsgaard, Bo
AU - Maruyama, Pietro K.
AU - Sandel, Brody
AU - Strange, Niels
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Studies on scientific production of climate change knowledge show a geographical bias against the developing and more vulnerable regions of the world. If there is limited knowledge exchange between regions, this may deepen global knowledge divides and, thus, potentially hamper adaptive capacities. Consequently, there is a need to further understand this bias, and, particularly, link it with the exchange of knowledge across borders. We use a world-wide geographical distribution of author affiliations in > 15,000 scientific climate change publications to show that (1) research production mainly takes place in richer, institutionally well-developed countries with cooler climates and high climate footprints, and (2) the network of author affiliations is structured into distinct modules of countries with strong common research interests, but with little knowledge exchange between modules. These modules are determined mainly by geographical proximity, common climates, and similar political and economic characteristics. This indicates that political-economic, social and educational-scientific initiatives targeted to enhance local research production and collaborations across geographical-climate module borders may help diminish global knowledge divides. We argue that this could strengthen adaptive capacity in the most vulnerable regions of the world.
AB - Studies on scientific production of climate change knowledge show a geographical bias against the developing and more vulnerable regions of the world. If there is limited knowledge exchange between regions, this may deepen global knowledge divides and, thus, potentially hamper adaptive capacities. Consequently, there is a need to further understand this bias, and, particularly, link it with the exchange of knowledge across borders. We use a world-wide geographical distribution of author affiliations in > 15,000 scientific climate change publications to show that (1) research production mainly takes place in richer, institutionally well-developed countries with cooler climates and high climate footprints, and (2) the network of author affiliations is structured into distinct modules of countries with strong common research interests, but with little knowledge exchange between modules. These modules are determined mainly by geographical proximity, common climates, and similar political and economic characteristics. This indicates that political-economic, social and educational-scientific initiatives targeted to enhance local research production and collaborations across geographical-climate module borders may help diminish global knowledge divides. We argue that this could strengthen adaptive capacity in the most vulnerable regions of the world.
KW - Adaptive capacity
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Climate change
KW - Knowledge exchange
KW - Modules
KW - Network analysis
U2 - 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.018
DO - 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.018
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84944059927
VL - 35
SP - 279
EP - 288
JO - Global Environmental Change
JF - Global Environmental Change
SN - 0959-3780
ER -
ID: 151511933