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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.018
	Geographical imbalances and divides in the scientific production of climate change knowledge
	Pasgaard M.; Dalsgaard B.; Maruyama P.K.; Sandel B.; Strange N.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	35
英文摘要	Studies on scientific production of climate change knowledge show a geographical bias against the developing and more vulnerable regions of the world. If there is limited knowledge exchange between regions, this may deepen global knowledge divides and, thus, potentially hamper adaptive capacities. Consequently, there is a need to further understand this bias, and, particularly, link it with the exchange of knowledge across borders. We use a world-wide geographical distribution of author affiliations in > 15,000 scientific climate change publications to show that (1) research production mainly takes place in richer, institutionally well-developed countries with cooler climates and high climate footprints, and (2) the network of author affiliations is structured into distinct modules of countries with strong common research interests, but with little knowledge exchange between modules. These modules are determined mainly by geographical proximity, common climates, and similar political and economic characteristics. This indicates that political-economic, social and educational-scientific initiatives targeted to enhance local research production and collaborations across geographical-climate module borders may help diminish global knowledge divides. We argue that this could strengthen adaptive capacity in the most vulnerable regions of the world. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptive capacity; Bibliometric analysis; Climate change; Knowledge exchange; Modules; Network analysis
学科领域	adaptive management; bibliography; climate change; developing world; environmental education; geographical knowledge; network analysis; political economy; science and technology; vulnerability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; bibliography; climate change; developing world; environmental education; geographical knowledge; network analysis; political economy; science and technology; vulnerability
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117449
作者单位	University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Øster Voldgade 10, Copenhagen K, DK-1350, Denmark; Center for Macroecology,Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15DK-2100, Denmark; Programa de Pós-Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Cx. Postal 6109, Campinas, SP, CEP: 13083-970, Brazil; Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark; University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Denmark
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pasgaard M.,Dalsgaard B.,Maruyama P.K.,et al. Geographical imbalances and divides in the scientific production of climate change knowledge[J],2015,35.
APA	Pasgaard M.,Dalsgaard B.,Maruyama P.K.,Sandel B.,&Strange N..(2015).Geographical imbalances and divides in the scientific production of climate change knowledge.Global Environmental Change,35.
MLA	Pasgaard M.,et al."Geographical imbalances and divides in the scientific production of climate change knowledge".Global Environmental Change 35(2015).