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

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  • Abad Chabbi

    (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), URP3F, 86600 Lusignan, France
    Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Ecosys, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France)

  • Henry W. Loescher

    (Battelle-National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), 1685 38th Street, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
    Institute of Alpine and Arctic Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80301, USA)

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.

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  • Abad Chabbi & Henry W. Loescher, 2017. "The Lack of Alignment among Environmental Research Infrastructures May Impede Scientific Opportunities," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-8, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jchals:v:8:y:2017:i:2:p:18-:d:105073
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