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Abstracts
Résumé
Cet article propose une vision des démarches d’évaluation de l’adéquation de la connaissance scientifique dans des situations d’incertitude forte et irréductible en recourant à des processus délibératifs élargis. Dans l’optique de la Science Post-Normale, la démarche s’appuie, d’un point de vue épistémologique, sur l’articulation des approches scientifiques et de sciences sociales pour définir la qualité intrinsèque de la connaissance et sa pertinence dans des contextes sociaux, culturels et politiques différents.
Cet article présente un outil de contrôle de la qualité de la connaissance et de « bonnes pratiques » scientifiques (NUSAP). La question de la pertinence de la connaissance, qu’elle soit scientifique ou vernaculaire, s’intègre dans un processus multidimensionnel délibératif, associant divers acteurs, critères, échelles, sites… et portant sur les indicateurs et sur les orientations politiques à travers la Foire Kerbabel™ aux Indicateurs et la Matrice Kerbabel™ de Délibération.
Mots-clés:
- Incertitude,
- Délibération,
- Qualité de la Connaissance,
- Pertinence,
- Indicateurs
Abstract
Knowledge Quality Assessment is an essential activity in the science-policy and science-society interfaces regarding complex (environmental) problems where decisions will need to be made before conclusive scientific evidence is available while high decision stakes, high systems uncertainties and values in dispute characterize these problems. In the past decennia analytical diagnostic tools have been developed and used such as the NUSAP system, to assess and make explicit internal strength of knowledge claims. In such an enlarged deliberative process, analytic diagnostic tools can facilitate a reflective deliberative discourse (KerbabelTM Deliberation Support Tools). It can improve the knowledge base for decision making by promoting the exchange of information, and in particular by making available key insights from local and ‘lay’ knowledge of relevant topics.
Keywords:
- Uncertainty,
- Deliberation,
- Quality Assessment,
- Pertinence,
- Indicators
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