The Lack of Alignment among Environmental Research Infrastructures May Impede Scientific Opportunities

Abad Chabbi and Henry W. Loescher
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Abad Chabbi: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), URP3F, 86600 Lusignan, France
Henry W. Loescher: Battelle-National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), 1685 38th Street, Boulder, CO 80301, USA

Challenges, 2017, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-8

Abstract: Faced with growing stakeholder attention to climate change-related societal impacts, Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERIs) find it difficult to engage beyond their initial user base, which calls for an overarching governance scheme and transnational synergies. Forced by the enormity of tackling climate change, ERIs are indeed broaching collaborative venues, based on the assumption that no given institution can carry out this agenda alone. While strategic, this requires that ERIs address the complexities and barriers towards aligning multiple organizations, national resources and programmatic cultures, including science.

Keywords: Environmental Research Infrastructures; climate change; fragmentation; ESFRI; governance; societal challenges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 C00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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