| Description |
xvii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
SCOPE series ; 68 |
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SCOPE series ; 68
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| Contents |
Why this book? : an introduction and synthesis / Holm Tiessen -- Steering research towards policy relevance / Mark D. Stauffer ... [et al.] -- Stakeholders and global environmental change science / Mike Brklacich ... [et al.] -- Delivering global environmental change science to the policy process / John Ingram ... [et al.] -- Communicating science to the media, decision makers and the public / Theo Beckers ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- Linking global change research to improved policies and management for Amazonian rivers / Michael E. McClain ... [et al.] -- Mediated modeling for integrating science and stakeholders : impacts of enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation on ecosystem services / Marjan van den Belt ... [et al.] -- 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 |
| Notes |
"A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.
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Research -- Latiin America -- Case studies
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Communication in science -- Latin America -- Case studies.
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Research -- Government policy -- Latin America -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Tiessen, H. (Holm)
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| LC no. |
2007014819 |
| ISBN |
9781597261760 cloth alkaline paper |
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1597261769 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781597261777 paperback alkaline paper |
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1597261777 paperback alkaline paper |
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