Sustainable Development in Science Policy-Making : : The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Policies for International Cooperation in Sustainability Research / / Anna Schwachula.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2019 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Schwachula, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Science Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

New knowledge, created in international cooperation, is essential for global sustainability. Set against this background, this study focuses on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research. Based on interviews with policy makers and researchers, the book scrutinizes the actors, processes and contents of science policy in Germany. The author argues that science policy mainly aims at German economic benefits and technology development. This, however, negatively influences global sustainability. To counter existing path dependencies, the author provides recommendations for sustainability-oriented scientific practice and science policy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- List of boxes, figures and tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Shedding light on German science policy for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies -- 1.2 Sustainable development as normative background -- 1.3 Contributions to scientific literature -- 1.4 Analytical structure and outline of the chapters -- 2 Science in the context of sustainable development -- 2.1 Science for a cause? Between impact and autonomy -- 2.2 Science policy and society -- 2.3 Concepts of (sustainable) development -- 2.4 Science, innovation and (sustainable) development -- 3 Discourse analysis in a policy setting -- 3.1 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse for policy analysis -- 3.2 The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse in empirical research -- 4 Research design and methodology -- 4.1 Scientific model and approach -- 4.2 Research design -- 4.3 Data collection and sampling -- 4.4 Fieldwork -- 4.5 Data analysis -- 4.6 Reflections on my position as a researcher -- 5 Public funding for international research cooperation in Germany -- 5.1 Research funders for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies -- 5.2 The BMBF as funder of international research cooperation -- 5.3 International funding initiatives in FONA -- 6 Practices of policy production between structural frames, strategies and spaces of agency -- 6.1 Structures and agency in the process of discourse actualisation in science policy -- 6.2 Following a beaten track: Discourse reproduction -- 6.3 Policy makers as change agents -- 7 Friends and foes in science policy -- 7.1 Defending the turf: Ministries as political entities -- 7.2 Cooperation countries: From objects of policy to partners in policy making -- 7.3 Discourse coalitions -- 7.4 Power in discourse production -- 7.5 A self-reinforcing equilibrium in science policy -- 8 The heart of German science policy - and its green lungs -- 8.1 The heart and soul of science policy -- 8.2 The green lungs: Sustainability as a new discourse in science policy -- 8.3 Translating the discursive leitmotif into discourses of international cooperation and sustainability -- 8.4 Policy rationales as elements of political identity and symbols of difference -- 8.5 Problematizing German interest -- 9 Objectives and expectations of the IWRM and Megacities funding initiatives -- 9.1 Deviating expectations in different funding initiatives of the Sustainability Subdepartment -- 9.2 Policy expectations and mode of science -- 9.3 High expectations, low conceptualisation -- 10 Policy effects - coining realities -- 10.1 Effects of policy on projects: Monitoring as a strategy for stabilizing discourse -- 10.2 Projects between the influence of policy and rooms of adaptation -- 10.3 Project practice: Subversion or compliance? -- 11 Conclusions -- 11.1 Discourse stability and discourse change -- 11.2 The BMBF's sustainability concept vs. global sustainable development -- 11.3 Global development as opportunity for German science policy -- 11.4 Further research questions -- Appendices -- Appendix A-1: Overview of data collected in interviews and from participant observation -- Appendix A-2: Overview of interview partners -- Appendix A-3: Example of guidelines used for a semistructured interview -- Appendix A-4: Example of coverpage and first page of transcription of a semi-structured interview -- Appendix A-5: Exemplary page of fieldnotes -- Appendix A-6: Extract from list of codes -- Appendix B-1: Developing countries and emerging economies with bilateral science, technology and innovation cooperation agreements with Germany -- Appendix B-2: Overview of main BMBF funding measures for cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies -- Appendix B-3a: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the IWRM funding priority -- Appendix B-3b: Overview over types of applied project outcomes in the Megacities funding initiative -- Bibliography