UNESCO releases "World Social Sci ence Report 2013 – Changing Global Environments"
David Wojick
dwojick at CRAIGELLACHIE.US
Sun Nov 17 10:57:46 EST 2013
Interesting but I would not call this work scientometrics.
David
At 11:07 AM 11/17/2013, you wrote:
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>Certainly usefull too: a paper on how political bodies act to control
>scientific institutions, how scientists adjust both data and even theory
>to accommodate politically correct positions, and how opposition to these
>positions is disposed of:
><http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.3762.pdf>http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.3762.pdf
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>[SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Loet Leydesdorff
>[loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET]
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>2013 – Changing Global Environments"
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>Dear David:
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><http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901111001080>Exploring
>the impact of the IPCC Assessment Reports on science
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><http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5-kor3oAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra>E
>Vasileiadou,
><http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IhT7URUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra>G
>Heimeriks,
><http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MUc8A-EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra>AC
>Petersen - Environmental Science & Policy, 2011 - Elsevier
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>Even though critique to IPCC is certainly not new, the climate
>controversies of 2009 and
>2010 brought this critique again to the fore in public media. The paper
>contributes to this
>ongoing debate, and investigates empirically the impact of the four
>Assessment Reports of ...
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><http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5606035991506273166&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en>Cited
>by 5
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>12 versions
><http://scholar.google.com/scholar.enw?q=info:jkPJPwikzE0J:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&hl=en&ct=citation&cd=7>Import
>into EndNote
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><http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author%3A%22E+Vasileiadou%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5>More
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>Perhaps, useful?
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>Best,
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>Loet
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>[mailto:SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of David Wojick
>Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:58 PM
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>2013 – Changing Global Environments"
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>Dear Loet,
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>Interesting idea. How might that work?
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>I study the climate change debate as a major case of a complex, science
>intensive public policy issue. There are some interesting scientometrics
>issues, especially in the area of community identification, or what I call
>the demographics of belief.
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>David
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>On Nov 17, 2013, at 3:58 AM, Loet Leydesdorff
><<mailto:loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET>loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET> wrote:
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>Perhaps, one can use “big data” to fight “global climate change” J.
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>Can the reflection then be provided by the “e-humanities”?
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>Best,
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>Loet
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>This is quite a manifesto. In particular "...changing the way the social
>sciences think about and do science" is an remarkable goal, perhaps even a
>questionable goal.
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>Science metrics might begin by documenting the rise of politicized
>science, of which this is a clear example.
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>David Wojick
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>On Nov 15, 2013, at 2:57 PM, anup kumar das
><<mailto:anupdas2072 at GMAIL.COM>anupdas2072 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>UNESCO Releases "World Social Science Report 2013 – Changing Global
>Environments"
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>published: November 15, 2013
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>UNESCO today announced the launch of its flagship publication World Social
>Science Report 2013 — Changing Global Environments.
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>The environmental challenges that confront society are unprecedented and
>staggering in their magnitude, scope, pace and complexity. They have
>potentially serious consequences for the wellbeing of people all over the
>world. The consequences of global environmental change are unfolding now;
>individuals and communities are already struggling to manage often
>precarious livelihoods; other social, economic and political crises –
>including persistent poverty, increasing inequalities and social
>discontent – are intricately linked to and exacerbated by environmental
>change. Global environmental change changes everything for everyone on
>this planet – our life support systems, our livelihoods, our ways of life,
>our actions and interactions with each other. It also changes demands for
>and on the social, including behavioural and economic sciences.
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>This is the third edition of the World Social Science Report. Based on a
>call for proposals, over 150 authors from all over the world have
>contributed articles. The Report issues an urgent call to action to the
>international social science community. Social scientists need to
>collaborate more effectively with colleagues from the natural, human and
>engineering sciences to deliver relevant, credible knowledge that can help
>to address the most pressing of today’s environmental problems and
>sustainability challenges. And they need to do so in close collaboration
>with decision-makers, practitioners and the other users of their research.
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>A new kind of social science is needed, one that is bolder, better,
>bigger, different:
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>· Bold enough to reframe and reinterpret global environmental
>change as a fundamentally social process
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>· Better in terms of infusing social science insights into
>real-world problem-solving
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>· Bigger in terms of the need for more social scientists to address
>the challenges of global environmental change directly
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>· Different in the sense of changing the way the social sciences
>think about and do science – its theories, assumptions, methodologies,
>institutions, norms and incentives, to help meet the vexing
>interdisciplinary and cross-sector challenges society faces.
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>This report aims to engage social scientists working in all disciplines in
>academia, research institutes, think tanks, NGOs, and government agencies
>all over the world. The ISSC will use the report as a basis for critical
>discussion with its members and partners to sharpen the social science
>knowledge base on global environmental change and to support social
>science leadership in research for sustainability.
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>Report includes two chapters on open knowledge: 11. A new vision of open
>knowledge systems for sustainability: Opportunities for social scientists,
>by David Tàbara; 12. Viewpoint: Open knowledge and learning for
>sustainability, by Tim O’Riordan.
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>The 2013 World Social Science Report was prepared and edited by the
>International Social Science Council (ISSC) with the support of high level
>specialists from all the over the world. It is co-published by the ISSC,
>the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and UNESCO.
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>Read WSSR2013 online now:
><http://www.worldsocialscience.org/activities/world-social-science-report/the-2013-report/read-changing-global-environments/>http://www.worldsocialscience.org/activities/world-social-science-report/the-2013-report/read-changing-global-environments/
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><http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/reports/world-social-science-report-2013/>Further
>Details:
><http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/reports/world-social-science-report-2013/>http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/reports/world-social-science-report-2013/
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