City-led science diplomacy: Building urban sustainability and resilience at the science-policy interface
- Autores: Hannah Abdullah, Alexis Roig
- Localización: Notes internacionals CIDOB, ISSN-e 2013-4428, Nº. 258, 2021, págs. 1-7
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
With the growing importance of cities in the transition to sustainable development, there is an evergreater need for knowledge about our planet from an urban perspective that can support local governance and help to build local government capacity to anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to risks.
In the context of shifting power structures in the multilateral system, new forms of science diplomacy have emerged that are no longer driven by states and their interests but by the scientific community itself together with various other actors engaged in present-day global policymaking.
While, traditionally speaking, promotion of international scientific cooperation has not been part of the jurisdiction of local governments, cities around the world have begun to engage in science diplomacy in close collaboration with their local STI ecosystems.
City-led science diplomacy initiatives are a multistakeholder effort in which municipal authorities work with many partners, including universities and research centres, technology companies, and policy organisations.
Cities value science diplomacy not only for its more established functions of international promotion, place-branding, and talent attraction, but also because they increasingly recognise it as a tool for boosting urban sustainability and resilience through transnational scientific cooperation that can inform local policymaking.
