Scientific knowledge of DDLD in Argentina: tensions between the visible and the existing.

LAURA TORRES; ELENA MARÍA ABRAHAM

Cancún

Conferencia; 3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference "Combating desertification, land degradation and drought for poverty reduction and sustainable development; 2015

UNCCD

Three interrelated goals are proposed in the present work:1. Describing scientific knowledge of DDLL in Argentina which is visible in international databases.2. Retrieving existing scientific knowledge that is not visible, particularly knowledge that has made contributions to an integrated understanding of desertification and that opens channels for dialogue between the physical-natural sciences and the social sciences.3. Analyzing the limitations attested to by decision makers, particularly those involved in the design of actions to combat desertification, in their access to available scientific knowledge, also considering the alternatives they envision to bridge the existing gaps between the political and academic fields. The working methodology adopted is the result of combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies for scientific research. Among the former, bibliometric analysis is resorted to, and a description is made of the scientific studies of DDLD generated in Argentina which are visible in international databases. Based on the knowledge captured by Web of Science, thecontributions are analyzed from shared categories of analysis (scientific disciplines from which studies were generated, fields of knowledge that have been integrated in each case, languages in which papers have been published, and places of origin and characteristics of the journals containing them).