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100 1 _aLEMOS, Maria Carmen de Mello
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245 1 0 _aA tale of two policies :
_bthe politics of climate forecasting and drought relief in Ceará, Brazil
260 _aDordrecht, Netherlands :
_bSpringer,
_cJune 2003
520 3 _aThis paper evaluates the use of climate-based information in drought mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil. It examines two policies – a seed-distribution program (Hora de Plantar) and the Emergency Drought-Relief Program – that use climate information produced by FUNCEME (Cearás Foundation for Meteorological and Hydrological Resources) to implement drought planning. It argues that, in politically charged policy-making environments, the use of climate forecast information may go beyond its problem-solving function to influence broader issues of accountability and democratization. In Cearás politically charged environment, technocrats rely on scientific information about climate to insulate policy-making from both political meddling and public accountability. However, insulation afforded by the use of climate information has played different roles in the policy areas examined in this study. While in drought emergency-relief planning the use of climate information critically contributed to the democratization of policy implementation, in agricultural planning, it worked towards further insulating decision-making from public accountability and client participation. Thus, the use of climate information is context-dependent, that is, the distribution of costs and benefits associated with information use in policymaking depends on the social, political, and cultural context in which information producers and users work. Moreover, climate information can be used in ways – positive or negative – significantly different from the use that information producers intended
773 0 8 _tPolicy Sciences
_g36, 2, p. 101-123
_dDordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, June 2003
_xISSN 0032-2867
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