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

Publication Info. Washington [DC] : Island Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SCOPE series ; 68
SCOPE report ; 68.
Note "A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
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Subject Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research.
Research -- Latiin America -- Case studies.
Research.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Communication in science -- Latin America -- Case studies.
Communication in science.
Latin America.
Research -- Government policy -- Latin America -- Case studies.
Research -- Government policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Tiessen, H. (Holm)
Other Form: Print version: Communicating global change science to society. Washington [DC] : Island Press, ©2007 9781597261760 (DLC) 2007014819 (OCoLC)122974365
ISBN 9781610911511 (electronic book)
1610911512 (electronic book)
9781597261760
1597261769
9781597261777
1597261777