Science-policy dialogues are paramount to strengthen the climate change adaptation and mitigation political agenda. This article considers the dialogue in terms of interface, understood as an area of tension and discontinuities produced by differences of values, interests, knowledge and power. The research explores, through a qualitative methodology, standpoints of academics and politicians involved in main projects of Mendoza province related to water, climate and territorial ordering; and it assess the ways in which operates that interface between scientific and local policy community. The main findings indicate that dialogue develops as a process of mutual influence based on relationships and instances of interaction built through time, and trust bonds capable of influence in the decision-making processes. In that instance, it is essential the presence of intermediary actors with the capability of understanding the logic of both communities, and therefore, make effective the possible dialogue.
Lettelier, MD; Dalmasso, C
SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE AROUND CLIMATE CHANGE IN MENDOZA, ARGENTINA
Revista De Estudios Politicos Y Estrategicos