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Communicating global change science to society : an assessment and case studies / edited by Holm Tiessen [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SCOPE report ; 68.Publication details: Washington [DC] : Island Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610911511
  • 1610911512
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Communicating global change science to society.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 22
LOC classification:
  • Q180.L37 C65 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
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Summary: 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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"A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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