Urban Studies, Malmö University, 205 06 Malmö, Sweden.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department for Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Tornblad Institute, Biskopsgatan 9, 223 62 Lund, Sweden.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jun 12;17(12):4214. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17124214.
Air pollution is estimated to cause more than 7000 deaths annually in Sweden alone. To reduce the impact of air pollution and to plan and build sustainable cities, it is vital that research is translated into efficient decisions and practice. However, how do civil servants in a municipality access research results? How do they normally find relevant information, and what obstacles are there to accessing and applying research results? As part of the collaborative and transdisciplinary research project Air Pollution Research in Local Environmental Planning (ARIEL), these questions were explored through interviews and seminars with civil servants within the Malmö Municipality Environmental Office. We found that the civil servants generally have proficiency in processing research results, but often do not use such results as part of their everyday decision making and practices. Instead, the data and measurements used are mostly produced case-by-case within the municipal sector itself. Information about best practices is also collected via a number of knowledge access practices, involving the Internet or social networks within other municipalities. Lack of time, paywalls, and the insufficient applicability of research hinder the dissemination of up-to-date results. This slows down the process whereby research, funded by tax-money, can be put to best practice in the effort to create healthy and sustainable cities.
空气污染估计每年仅在瑞典就导致 7000 多人死亡。为了减少空气污染的影响，并规划和建设可持续城市，将研究成果转化为高效决策和实践至关重要。然而，市政府的公务员如何获取研究成果？他们通常如何找到相关信息，以及获取和应用研究成果存在哪些障碍？作为合作和跨学科研究项目“地方环境规划中的空气污染研究（ARIEL）”的一部分，通过对马尔默市环境办公室公务员的访谈和研讨会，探讨了这些问题。我们发现，公务员通常熟练地处理研究成果，但通常不会将这些成果作为其日常决策和实践的一部分来使用。相反，在市政部门内部，数据和测量结果大多是逐个案例产生的。关于最佳实践的信息也是通过多种知识获取实践收集的，包括互联网或其他城市的社交网络。时间不足、付费墙和研究的适用性不足阻碍了最新成果的传播。这减缓了由税款资助的研究在创造健康和可持续城市方面付诸最佳实践的过程。
