THE POLICY RELEVANCE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE RESEARCH

Authors
Citation
B. Yarnal, THE POLICY RELEVANCE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE RESEARCH, Global and planetary change, 11(4), 1996, pp. 167-175
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
ISSN journal
09218181
Volume
11
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
167 - 175
Database
ISI
SICI code
0921-8181(1996)11:4<167:TPROGE>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Many scientists are striving to identify and promote the policy implic ations of their global change research. Much basic research on global environmental change cannot advance policy directly, but new projects can determine the relevance of their research to decision makers and b uild policy-relevant products into the work. Similarly, many ongoing p rojects can alter or add to the present science design to make the res earch policy relevant. Thus, this paper shows scientists working on gl obal change how to make their research policy relevant. It demonstrate s how research on physical global change relates to human dimensions s tudies and integrated assessments. It also presents an example of how policy relevance can be fit retroactively into a global change project (in this case, SRBEX-the Susquehanna River Basin Experiment) and how that addition can enhance the project's status and science. The paper concludes that policy relevance is desirable from social and scientifi c perspectives.