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

1. Why this book? An introduction and synthesis
2. Steering research toward policy relevance
3. Stakeholders and global environmental change science
4. Devivering global environmental change science to the policy process
5. Communicating science to the media, decision makers and the public
6.Communicating science in democratic media societies
7. Institutions as initiators and users of science
8. Vulnerabilities of societies under Global Environmental Change (GEC)
9. What social and natural sciences could learn from each other: The challenge of interdisciplinarity
10. Legal frameworks and biodiversity: The impact of ownership and control of biodiversity on science
11. Intergrating environmental and social agendas: The experience of the amazonian networks LBA and GEOMA
12. Assessment of present, past and future climate variability in the americas from treeline environments
13. Climate variability and its impacts in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
14. Stakeholders and decision makers in a study of Global changes in the South Atlantic
15.Climate variability and climate changes in the southern cone
16. Land use change in semiarid Americas: Biogeochemistry, societal impact, and policies
17. Cattle ranching, land use and deforestation in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru
18. Global change effects on the vegetation of tropical high mountains and Savannas
19. Linking global change research to improved policies and management for Amazonian Rivers
20. Mediated modeling for intergrating science and stakeholders: Impacts of enhanced Ultraviolet-B radiation on ecosystem services
21. ENSO and risk management: Natural and social sciences, policy implications, and stakeholder participation
22. Diagnostics and prediction of climate variation and human health impacts

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