Understanding policymakers’ perspectives on evidence use as a mechanism for improving research-policy relationships

This special issue examines how relationships between research and policy in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) can be strengthened. Our contribution draws on three cases from outside the ESE space to analyse policymakers’ perspectives on using evidence to inform decision-making, and to show that government-based policymakers develop ‘policy narratives’ which influence their evidence use. We also illustrate how government...