Communicating global change science to society : an assessment and case studies /
Examines the growing number of instances in which governments and scientists have engaged in research projects in which the goal is to inform policy decisions.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington [DC] :
Island Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | SCOPE report ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Why this book? : an introduction and synthesis / Holm Tiessen
- Steering research towards policy relevance / Mark D. Stauffer [and others]
- Stakeholders and global environmental change science / Mike Brklacich [and others]
- Delivering global environmental change science to the policy process / John Ingram [and others]
- Communicating science to the media, decision makers and the public / Theo Beckers [and others]
- Communicating science in democratic media societies / Peter Weingart
- Institutions as initiators and users of science / Peter R. Jutro
- Vulnerabilities of societies under global environmental change (GEC) / Mike Brklacich, May Chazan and Andrew Dawe
- What social and natural sciences could learn from each other : the challenge of interdisciplinarity / Barbara Göbel
- Legal frameworks and biodiversity : the impact of ownership and control of biodiversity on science / Susanne Reyes-Knoche
- Integrating environmental and social agendas : the experience of the Amazonian networks LBA and GEOMA / Peter M. de Toledo [and others]
- Assessment of present, past and future climate variability in the Americas from treeline environments / Brian H. Luckman
- Climate variability and its impacts in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean / Victor Magaña and Ernesto Caetano
- Stakeholder and decision makers in a study of global changes in the South Atlantic / Edmo J.D. Campos and Alberto R. Piola
- Climate variability and climate changes in the Southern Cone / Mario N. Nuñez
- Land use change in semi-arid Americas : biogeochemistry, societal impact, and policies / Rômulo S.C. Menezes [and others]
- Cattle ranching, land use and deforestation in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru / Charles H. Wood and Jean François Tourrand
- Global change effects on the vegetation of tropical high mountains and savannas / Carlos A. Klink [and others]
- Linking global change research to improved policies and management for Amazonian rivers / Michael E. McClain [and others]
- Mediated modeling for integrating science and stakeholders : impacts of enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation on ecosystem services / Marjan van den Belt [and others]
- ENSO and risk management : natural and social sciences, policy implications and stakeholder participation / Allan Lavell
- Diagnostics and prediction of climate variation and human health impacts / Ulisses Confalonieri.
