• Unpacking the modeling process for energy policy making 

      Lo Piano, Samuele; Lőrincz, Máté János; Puy, Arnald; Pye, Steve; Saltelli, Andrea; Smith, Stefán Thor; van der Sluijs, Jeroen P (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This article explores how the modeling of energy systems may lead to an undue closure of alternatives by generating an excess of certainty around some of the possible policy options. We retrospectively exemplify the problem ...
    • Unpacking the modelling process via sensitivity auditing 

      Lo Piano, Samuele; Sheikholeslami, Razi; Maeso, Arnald Puy; Saltelli, Andrea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Acknowledging the conditionality of model-based evidence facilitates the dialogue between model developers and model users, especially when models are used to guide decisions at the science-policy interface. In general, ...
    • An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic insecticides. Part 2: impacts on organisms and ecosystems 

      Pisa, Lennard W.; Goulson, Dave; Yang, En-Cheng; Gibbons, David W.; Sanchez-Bayo, Francisco; Mitchell, Edward; Aebi, Alexandre; van der Sluijs, Jeroen P; MacQuarrie, Chris J.K.; Giorio, Chiara; Long, Elizabeth Yim; McField, Melanie D.; Bijleveld van Lexmond, Maarten; Bonmatin, Jean-Marc (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      New information on the lethal and sublethal effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on organisms is presented in this review, complementing the previous Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) in 2015. The high toxicity of ...
    • Value- And ecosystem-based management approach- And Pacific herring fishery conflict 

      Lam, Mimi Elizabeth; Pitcher, Tony J.; Surma, Szymon; Scott, Jeffery; Kaiser, Matthias; White, April SJ; Pakhomov, Evgeny A; Ward, Lawrence M (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      We introduce an innovative value- and ecosystem-based management approach (VEBMA) that exposes resource policy tradeoffs, fosters good governance, and can help to resolve conflicts. We apply VEBMA to the Pacific herring ...
    • Virtue Ethics and Integration in Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology 

      Berg, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-18)
      The policy statement for evidence-based practice in psychology is the most important document in contemporary psychotherapy. In its current form, evidence-based practice in psychology gives scientific research precedence ...
    • The visual framing of climate change impacts and adaptation in the IPCC assessment reports 

      Wardekker, Arjan; Lorenz, Susanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a key source on climate change information. How the IPCC presents and frames this climate information influences how policymakers and various stakeholders worldwide ...
    • What can mathematical modelling contribute to a sociology of quantification? 

      Saltelli, Andrea; Puy, Arnald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Sociology of quantification has spent relatively less energies investigating mathematical modelling than it has on other forms of quantification such as statistics, metrics, or algorithms based on artificial intelligence. ...
    • What Ethics for Bioart? 

      Vaage, Nora Sørensen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-04)
      Living artworks created with biotechnology raise a range of ethical questions, some of which are unprecedented, others well known from other contexts. These questions are often discussed within the framework of bioethics, ...
    • What hat are you wearing? On the multiple roles of fishery scientists in the ICES community 

      Dankel, Dorothy Jane; Stange, Kari; Nielsen, Kåre Nolde (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Trends towards a more participatory agenda in policy-relevant science imply that the roles and work tasks of scientists become more multifaceted. In Europe, the increased use of multiannual plans creates a need for fishery ...
    • What is Post-normal Science? A Personal Encounter 

      Saltelli, Andrea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      What is post-normal science? What are the reasons for, and consequences of, encountering it in one’s professional life? Here I share my own experience of readings, practices and discussions with the fathers, supporters and ...
    • “What Was That Word? It’s Part of Ensuring Its Future Existence” Exploring Engagement Collectives at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre 

      Völker, Thomas; Guimarães Pereira, Ângela (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This paper provides an empirical analysis of an initiative to establish a Community of Practice on citizen engagement at the European Commission’s (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC). This initiative is one of the more recent ...
    • When laypeople are right and experts are wrong: Lessons from love canal 

      Fjelland, Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Love Canal, a suburban town in New York State built on a waste disposal site of a former chemical factory, provoked one of the first major environmental controversies. It involved scientists, citizens and politicians, ...
    • Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized 

      Fjelland, Ragnar (Journal article, 2020-06)
      The modern project of creating human-like artificial intelligence (AI) started after World War II, when it was discovered that electronic computers are not just number-crunching machines, but can also manipulate symbols. ...
    • Why Only Efficiency, and Not Efficacy, Matters in Psychotherapy Practice 

      Berg, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-07)
      Evidence-based practice in psychology consists of two quality parameters. One of these quality parameters is efficacy and the other is efficiency. In this article, it is argued that the only relevant parameter for determining ...
    • Why so many published sensitivity analyses are false: A systematic review of sensitivity analysis practices 

      Saltelli, Andrea; Aleksankina, Ksenia; Becker, William; Fennell, Pamela; Ferretti, Frederico; Holst, Niels; Li, Sushan; Wu, Qiongli (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04)
      Sensitivity analysis provides information on the relative importance of model input parameters and assumptions. It is distinct from uncertainty analysis, which addresses the question ‘How uncertain is the prediction?’ ...
    • Wind of Change: Discourse Collisions and Coalitions in the Fosen Vind Case 

      Lawford, Harry Lewis (Master thesis, 2023-05-22)
      I 2021 annullerte Høgsterett konsesjonane til to vindparkar på Fosenhalvøya i Trøndelag. Vindparkane blei vurdert som eit brot på dei lokale samiske reindriftssamane sin rett til “å dyrke sin eigen kultur”, som er beskytta ...
    • Working with Research Integrity—Guidance for Research Performing Organisations: The Bonn PRINTEGER Statement 

      Forsberg, Ellen-Marie; Anthun, Frank Otto; Bailey, Sharon; Birchley, Giles; Bout, Henriette; Casonato, Carlo; Fuster, Gloria González; Heinrichs, Bert; Horbach, Serge; Jacobsen, Ingrid; Janssen, Jacques; Kaiser, Matthias; Lerouge, Inge; van der Meulen, Barend; Sarah de Rijcke, Sarah; Saretzki, Thomas; Sutrop, Margit; Tazewell, Marta; Varantola, Krista; Vie, Knut Jørgen; Zwart, Hub; Zöller, Mira (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08)
      This document presents the Bonn PRINTEGER Consensus Statement: Working with Research Integrity—Guidance for research performing organisations. The aim of the statement is to complement existing instruments by focusing ...