Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence gathering? Biofuels, the EU and the 10% target†

By Amelia Sharman, J. Holmes. 2010

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

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2. R. Helliwell
3. J. Tomei

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2. R. Helliwell
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Citations in the corpus

• Institutional challenges in putting ecosystem service knowledge in practice (2017, unknown): “In highly contested policy-making situations, imperatives located in the political sphere often dominate scientific evidence, and knowledge is used not to inform decision-making but to legitimize preexisting positions (Sharman and Holmes, 2010).”
• EU criteria for sustainable biofuels: accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder (2013, background): “This process has been critically analysed as ‘policy-based evidence gathering’, i.e. a process whereby evidence is selected to support a previously determined policy (Sharman and Holmes, 2010).”
• Food versus fuel? Going beyond biofuels (2016, background): “By the early 2000s, it was argued that biofuels would help reduce agricultural price volatility (Londo and Deurwaarder, 2007; Mol, 2007; Clancy, 2008) and provide a compensatory measure to reduced direct subsidies via alternative market creation (Sharman and Holmes 2010).”