Abstract
Abstract The integration and intertwinement of knowledge and politics have entered a new level due to the complex and dynamic developments in our current knowledge-based society. New transaction zones can be detected where especially knowledge of experts and scientists have gained a decisive role. At the same time, scientific expert knowledge integrates not always other relevant knowledge forms in productive manners. Based on this observation, the paper discusses insights from a study on the implementation of the recent European Air Quality Framework Directive (96/92/EC) on the issue of particulate matter (PM10) in the City of Potsdam. In this specific case city, officials were obliged to introduce a novel policy of local air quality management and assessment—induced by a knowledge-driven, externally imposed meta governance. In distinguishing different knowledge forms our study reveals the increasing dominance of scientific and expert knowledge in hierarchical governance arrangements and demonstrates how ...
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