Communicating global change science to society : an assessment and case studies / / edited by Holm Tiessen ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Washington, : Island Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.483
• Soggetto topico: Research - Latin America; Communication in science - Latin America; Research - Government policy - Latin America
• Altri autori: TiessenH (Holm)
• Note generali: "A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Communicating global change science to society
• ISBN: 1-61091-151-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826835903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SCOPE report ; ; 68.