Communicating Global Change Science to Society - An Assessment and Case Studies

Informationen zum Autor Holm Tiessen is Director of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and Professor on leave from the Georg-August Universität of Göttingen, Germany. Gerhard Breulmann, a terrestrial ecologist, is Science Officer at the IAI in São José dos Campos, Brazil. Mike Brklacich is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and chairs the IAI's scientific advisory committee. Rômulo S. C. Menezes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear Energy at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. Klappentext "Communicating Global Change Science to Society" 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. It assesses these experiences and suggests their implications for future collaborations. Zusammenfassung 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. This book assesses these experiences and suggests their implications for collaborations. It contains a discussion of interactions between science and policy.

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• Authors: Holm (EDT)/ Brklacich Tiessen, Holm Brklacich Tiessen, TIESSEN HOLM BRKLACICH MIKE BREU
• Assisted by: Gerhard Breulmann (Editor), Michael Brklacich (Editor), Mike Brklacich (Editor), Romulo S C Menezes (Editor), Romulo S. C. Menezes (Editor), Romulo S.C. Menezes (Editor), Holm Tiessen (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2007
• EAN: 9781597261777
• ISBN: 978-1-59726-177-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Scientific committee on problems of the environmen; Scientific committee on problems of the environmen; Scientific Committee on Proble
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education