ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the analysis of both explicit and implicit conflicts appearing throughout the policy-making process will serve as a connecting point for applying a concept developed for this study: epistemic selectivities. It presents the methodological approach and conceptual framework used in the study. The chapter also presents a case study by interviewing some people on the concept of the science and policy. The set of questions was embedded in the broader context of international biodiversity politics and the identification of trends in biodiversity knowledge assessed through literature review, interview material and document analysis. The linear or instrumental model developed in the 1950s is based on assumption that scientific knowledge is useful to solve societal problems insofar as it produces true and valid knowledge. Critical realism acknowledges the existence of real causal mechanisms that influence events and manifest through these events which, in some cases may, in other cases may not be visible in the form of observable experiences.
