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Investigation of the conditions under which formal stakeholder consultations of the Directorate General Energy of the European Commission can help integrate climate change policy in energy policy in the European Union suggests that stakeholder consultations that aim at producing soft law and binding recommendations are rather insular, have low diversity of participants, and do not integrate climate change issues. Forums that aim at providing a discussion platform have higher diversity and integrate climate change issues to a certain extent. Stakeholder consultations can facilitate climate policy integration in European Union energy policy, as they take place early in the policy process. However, integration requires political commitment, and a concrete structure and format of the consultations that would facilitate integration. Adapted from the source document.

This article examines what the co-existence of different evaluation imaginaries – understandings of what environmental policy evaluation 'is' and 'should do' – means for everyday evaluation practice. We present a case study in which we show how these different understandings influence the evaluation process as they are mobilized interchangeably. Though co-existing evaluation imaginaries broaden the repertoire and potential for innovation, practitioners also experience tensions as innovative ambitions conflict with institutionalized practices. We hypothesize that practitioners deal with these inconsistencies by decoupling approaches, intentions and outcomes from each other. In this way, innovation occurs in parts of the evaluation process while other parts follow a more traditional approach. For evaluation theory we argue the need to further explore how decoupling enables practitioners to deal with co-existing imaginaries. For evaluation practice we stress that articulation of societal expectations is indispensable to ensure the legitimacy of policy evaluation.

In this paper we explore the possibility of using Web links to study collaborations between organisations, combining the results of qualitative analysis of interviews and quantitative analysis of linking patterns. We use case studies of scientific intermediaries, that is, organisations that mediate between the science system and other social actors (the market, the government etc) and argue that it is becoming increasingly important for such intermediaries to use the Web to indicate their strategic alliances. We analyse links between these organisations, together with primary sources such as organisational charts and internal reports, and find that these organisations indeed use outlinks to point to their collaborators and more specifically outlinks from specific depths. This supports our argument that links can be used to study the developments in science and the environment of scientific intermediaries. We discuss these findings in terms of their relevance for science studies and webometrics ; Peer reviewed