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By Kimberly Nicholas, Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science, Lund University Many high-level science advisory panels are drawn from a list of the usual suspects, said Jacquie McGlade, chief scientist of the UN Environment Program at the world’s first conference on … Read More

This piece was submitted by Catherine Rhodes, Research Fellow in Science Ethics, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Science Advice in International Treaty Organisations Many international organisations* routinely seek and make use … Read More

The Guardian’s Political Science blog ran a series of articles linked to the Global Science Advice to Governments Conference, held in Auckland on 28-29 August 2014, featuring several of the conference speakers. The following is a summary of the series: … Read More

This is a guest post by Heather Douglas, the Waterloo Chair in Science and Society in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Canada. In the last week of August, science advisors from around the world converged in … Read More

Robert Patman, Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, was a speaker at the Science and Diplomacy Symposium on 27 August. Along with Professor Lloyd Davis, he has co-edited a new … Read More