Policy networks, stakeholder interactions and climate adaptation in the region of South East Queensland, Australia

摘要: The strategic use of science in regional policy-making forums often assumes collaborative interactions between stakeholders. However, other types stakeholder are possible. This paper uses the ecology games to frame an investigation into participation policy networks for climate change planning South East Queensland, Australia. We tracked organisational 2008 and 2012. then used a novel bipartite network theoretical approach identify by different organisations across shared multiple forums, which we argue prefaces: cooperation, collaboration, support or advocacy. Network analysis was combined with semi-structured interviews access how scientific information utilised network. Our results suggest that were predominately advocate agendas. Advocacy artificially narrows scope possible options represents biased, selective information. While advocacy is important part process, as counter balance, explicit efforts needed recurrently expand options.