| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
SCOPE series ; 68 |
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SCOPE report ; 68.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.
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| SUBJECT |
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research fast |
| Subject |
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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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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Communication in science
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Research
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Research -- Government policy
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Klimaänderung
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Wissenschaftstransfer
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tiessen, H. (Holm)
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| ISBN |
9781610911511 |
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1610911512 |
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