The Role of Intra-national Research Collaboration and Funding in Generating Social and Policy Impact on the Amazon Biome
摘要
This chapter focuses on the policy instruments that support changes in the research agenda and design needed to address some of the most persistent issues related to climate change. Redirecting research agendas to address the core issues related to the creation of a sustainable bioeconomy based on leaving natural environments intact is a central contribution from the higher education sector for combatting climate change. When analysing the Brazilian experience, we argue that the required changes are not only related to the research agenda but, critically, to reshaping the patterns of collaboration linking more local research networks and the more internationalised ones. The chapter concludes by advancing new approaches to sustaining a better balance for participants from local research networks, arguing that funding agencies need to develop fine-tuned policy instruments that could nurture and support local actorhood, allowing for the local research agenda to be prioritised in these research efforts.