Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.