Karlijn Muiderman

168 Chapter 6 are valued. Figure 6.3. below is repeated from chapter 5 to demonstrate the integrated framework. Figure 6.3. The opening up or closing down of anticipatory governance The integrated framework helps to understand the implications of formulating governance actions as more technocratic forms of strategic planning and capacity building (chapters 3 and 4) for the possibilities for future action. The interviews and focus group discussions (chapters 3, 4, and 5) illustrate dominant policy discourses that tend to favor expert-analytic, consensual, and authoritative (rather than uncertain and contested) science, and as such are scientific and normative contestations inherent in climate science reframed to align with those policy requirements. In addition, there seem to be more implicit and explicit rationales for closing down. For example, the Bangladeshi Delta Commission scenarios are an example of more strategic closing down, where what is perceived as policy-relevant knowledge has shaped the outcomes of what should actually follow from the knowledge (Turnhout et al., 2016). Two groups

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