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Communicating Global Change Science to Society

An Assessment and Case Studies

Communicating Global Change Science to Society
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Edited by Holm Tiessen, Michael Brklacich, Gerhard Breulmann, and Rômulo S.C. Menezes

240 pages | 6 x 9
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series
National governments and research scientists may be equally concerned with issues of global environmental change, but their interests-and their timelines-are not the same. Governments are often focused on short-term effects and local impacts of global phenomena. Scientists, on the other hand, are loath to engage in speculation about the specific consequences of large-scale environmental trends.
 
How then can we translate scientific understanding of these trends into public policy?
 
Communicating Global Change Science to Society 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. It assesses these experiences and suggests their implications for future collaborations.
 
The book begins with a discussion of interactions between science and policy, particularly as they relate to the broad significance of environmental change. It then addresses concerns that emerge from this discussion, including how scientific research results are communicated in democratic societies, the uses (and misuses) of scientific findings, and what the natural and social sciences could learn from each other.
Foreword
 
Acknowledgment
 

Chapter 1. Why this book? An Introduction and Synthesis

 

Cross-cutting issues

Chapter 2. Steering Research Towards Policy Relevance

Chapter 3. Stakeholders and Global Environmental Change Science

Chapter 4. Delivering Global Environmental Change Science to the Policy Process

Chapter 5. Communicating Science to the Media, Decision Makers and the Public

 

Background chapters

Chapter 6. Communicating Science in Democratic Media Societies

Chapter 7. Institutions as Initiators and Users of Science

Chapter 8. Vulnerabilities of Societies Under Global Environmental Change (GEC)

Chapter 9. What Social and Natural Sciences Could Learn from Each Other: The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity

Chapter 10. Legal Frameworks and Biodiversity: The Impact of Ownership and Control of Biodiversity in Science

 

Examples of the Science-policy Interface

Chapter 11. Integrating Environmental and Social Agendas: The Experience of the Amazonian Networks LBA and GEOMA.

Chapter 12. Assessment of Present, Past and Future Climate Variability in the Americas from Treeline Environments

Chapter 13. Climate Variability and Its Impacts in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

Chapter 14. Stakeholder and Decision Makers in a Study of Global Changes in the South Atlantic

Chapter 15. Climate Variability and Climate Changes in the Southern Cone

Chapter 16. Land Use Change in Semi-arid Americas: Biogeochemistry, Societal Impact and Policies

Chapter 17. Cattle Ranching, Land Use and Deforestation in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru

Chapter 18. Global Change Effects on the Vegetation of Tropical High Mountains and Savannas

Chapter 19. Linking Global Change Research to Improved Policies and Management for Amazonian Rivers

Chapter 20. Mediated modeling for Integrating Science and Stakeholders: Impacts of Enhanced Ultraviolet B Radiation on Ecosystem Services

Chapter 21. ENSO and Risk Management: Natural and Social Science, Policy Implications and Stake Holder Participation

Chapter 22. Diagnostics and Prediction of Climate Variation and Human Health Impacts

 

List of Contributors

SCOPE Series List

SCOPE Executive-Committee 2005-2008

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