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Communicating Global Change Science to Society : An Assessment and Case Studies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) SeriesPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781610911511
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Communicating Global Change Science to SocietyDDC classification:
  • 303.48/3
LOC classification:
  • Q180.L37 C65 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Scope Series List -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Why This Book: An Introduction and Synthesis -- Part I: Crosscutting Issues -- Ch. 2: Steering Research toward Policy Relevance -- Ch. 3: Stakeholders and Global Environmental Change Science -- Ch. 4: Delivering Global Environmental Change Science to the Policy Process -- Ch. 5: Communicating Science to the Media, Decision Makers, and the Public -- Part II: Background Chapters -- Ch. 6: Communicating Science in Democratic Media Societies -- Ch. 7: Institutions as Initiators and Users of Science -- Ch. 8: Vulnerabilities of Societies under Global Environmental Change (GEC) -- Ch. 9: What Social and Natural Sciences Could Learn from Each Other: The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity -- Ch. 10: Legal Frameworks and Biodiversity: The Impact of Ownership and Control of Biodiversity on Science -- Part III: Examples of the Science-Policy Interface -- Ch. 11: Integrating Environmental and Sociaol Agendas: The Experience of teh Amazonian Networks LBA and GEOMA -- Ch. 12: Assessment of Present, Past, and Future Climate Variability in the Americas from Treeline Environments -- Ch. 13: Climate Variability and Its Impacts in Mexica, Central America, and the Caribbean -- Ch. 14: Stakeholders and Decision Makers in a Study of Global Changes in the South Atlantic -- Ch. 15: Climate Variability and Climate Changes in the Southern Cone -- Ch. 16: Land Use Change in Semiarid Americas: biogeochemistry, Societal Impact, and Policies -- Ch. 17: Cattle Ranching, Land Use, and Deforestation in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru -- Ch. 18: Global Change Effects on the Vegetation of Tropical High Mountains and Savannas -- Ch. 19: Linking Global Change Research to Improved Policies and Management for Amazonian Rivers.
Ch. 20: Mediated Modeling for Integrating Science and Stakeholders: Impacts of Enhanced Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Ecosystem Services -- Ch. 21: ENSO and Risk Management: Natural and Social Sciences, Policy Implications, and Stakeholder Participation -- Ch. 22: Diagnostics and Prediction of Climate Variation and Human Health Impacts -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Scope Series List -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Why This Book: An Introduction and Synthesis -- Part I: Crosscutting Issues -- Ch. 2: Steering Research toward Policy Relevance -- Ch. 3: Stakeholders and Global Environmental Change Science -- Ch. 4: Delivering Global Environmental Change Science to the Policy Process -- Ch. 5: Communicating Science to the Media, Decision Makers, and the Public -- Part II: Background Chapters -- Ch. 6: Communicating Science in Democratic Media Societies -- Ch. 7: Institutions as Initiators and Users of Science -- Ch. 8: Vulnerabilities of Societies under Global Environmental Change (GEC) -- Ch. 9: What Social and Natural Sciences Could Learn from Each Other: The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity -- Ch. 10: Legal Frameworks and Biodiversity: The Impact of Ownership and Control of Biodiversity on Science -- Part III: Examples of the Science-Policy Interface -- Ch. 11: Integrating Environmental and Sociaol Agendas: The Experience of teh Amazonian Networks LBA and GEOMA -- Ch. 12: Assessment of Present, Past, and Future Climate Variability in the Americas from Treeline Environments -- Ch. 13: Climate Variability and Its Impacts in Mexica, Central America, and the Caribbean -- Ch. 14: Stakeholders and Decision Makers in a Study of Global Changes in the South Atlantic -- Ch. 15: Climate Variability and Climate Changes in the Southern Cone -- Ch. 16: Land Use Change in Semiarid Americas: biogeochemistry, Societal Impact, and Policies -- Ch. 17: Cattle Ranching, Land Use, and Deforestation in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru -- Ch. 18: Global Change Effects on the Vegetation of Tropical High Mountains and Savannas -- Ch. 19: Linking Global Change Research to Improved Policies and Management for Amazonian Rivers.

Ch. 20: Mediated Modeling for Integrating Science and Stakeholders: Impacts of Enhanced Ultraviolet-B Radiation on Ecosystem Services -- Ch. 21: ENSO and Risk Management: Natural and Social Sciences, Policy Implications, and Stakeholder Participation -- Ch. 22: Diagnostics and Prediction of Climate Variation and Human Health Impacts -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Index.

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