03980nam 2200505Ia 450 991078647750332120230925230333.01-61091-151-2(CKB)2670000000278954(EBL)3317609(MiAaPQ)EBC3317609(Au-PeEL)EBL3317609(CaPaEBR)ebr10627184(OCoLC)923188336(EXLCZ)99267000000027895420070409d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||Communicating global change science to society[electronic resource] an assessment and case studies /edited by Holm Tiessen ... [et al.]Washington Island Pressc20071 online resource (237 p.)SCOPE series ;68"A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science."1-59726-177-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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 Social Agendas: The Experience of the 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""SCOPE report ;68.ResearchLatin AmericaCase studiesCommunication in scienceLatin AmericaCase studiesResearchGovernment policyLatin AmericaCase studiesResearchCommunication in scienceResearchGovernment policy303.483Tiessen H(Holm)1536645MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786477503321Communicating global change science to society3785499UNINA