晚近國際社會對於環境治理與永續工作提出重新檢視知識系統的呼籲，這主要是體認到解決全球性環境課題，必須著重地方知識生產、傳播與運用的效能，方能使在地回應機制永續經營。然而反省知識系統效能，首先就必須正視環境相關科學的社會溝通功能。為此，國際間乃積極倡議「永續科學」概念，期望藉由表彰科研的可信度、關鍵性與正當性，重新詮釋科學在環境治理中的角色。本研究則將之轉化，認為永續科學所強調的「在地關聯」，可以作為衡量地方科研議題的判準，藉此賦予科學社群承擔知識溝通的責任。本文進而以當前全球環境治理最感急迫，但與地方認知較屬疏遠的氣候變遷議題，運用網絡分析與語意系絡，解析台灣氣候變遷研究的分布與結構，評估台灣氣候變遷研究的在地關聯性，以衡量其契合永續科學的程度，並從中鑑別出具有在地意義的研究議題，提供未來科研工作的參考。
In recent years various international organizations and academies call for the re-examination of knowledge system predicated on the recognition that the linkage between knowledge production, diffusion, and application has to be emphasized and enhanced if firm and sustainable local responses are to be realized in dealing with global environmental issues. To reexamine knowledge system, it is science that becomes the focal point. In response, scientific community comes up with the concept of "sustainability science" to underline the role of science in transformation from knowledge to action by way of attaining its credibility, saliency, and legitimacy. The study goes further step to make use of sustainability science as a criterion to evaluate regional scientific research in terms of its performance in social communication. To measure the extent to which knowledge production contains "local relevance" is to demand scientific community to be accountable for knowledge communication. The paper thus takes Taiwan as an example to explore its array and structure of scientific research in climate change, a field that is closely related with the most pressing issues of global environmental governance but somehow remotes to the daily life of the local citizen. Network Analysis and semantic context are used to construct issue maps regarding Taiwan's climate change research so as to detect its compatibility with sustainability science. Research issues attaining salient "local relevance" will be identified from the issues maps, which are suggested to be the feasible topics for fulfilling knowledge communication in the local setting.
