Title: Integrating science and policy : vulnerability and resilience in global environmental change /
Authors: Kasperson, Roger E.; Berberian, Mimi.
Publisher: Earthscan,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Global environmental change; Environmental policy; Environmental sciences
Contents: Characterizing the science/practice gap / Roger E. Kasperson -- Knowledge to practice in the vulnerability, adaptation and resilience literature: a propositional inventory / Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner -- Integrating science and practice for the mitigation of natural disasters: barriers, bridges, propositions / Juergen Weichselgartner -- Linking vulnerability, adaptation and resilience science to practice: pathways, players and partnerships / Coleen Vogel [and others] -- The US climate change science program / Zachary Christman -- Linking climate change science with policy in California / Guido Franco [and others] -- Russia's climate policy and the Kyoto ratification deal: assessing the science/practice interface / Elena Nikitina and Vladimir Kotov -- Urban and social vulnerability to climate variability in Tijuana, Mexico / Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez -- Food insecurity in South Africa / Scott Drimie and Gina Ziervogel --^