Briefing #6, 26 January 2007
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About the Center

Center Highlights

A New & Upcoming Book Releases page has just been added to our website. Here you will find information about the following books by Center authors including release dates, table of contents, reviews, and how to order.

• Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating Social Change by S.C. Moser and L. Dilling, eds. (available February 28, 2007)

• The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics by R.A. Pielke, Jr. (available April 2007)

• Presidential Science Advisors: Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics by R.A. Pielke, Jr. and R. Klein, eds. (available late 2007)

Prometheus is the Center’s weblog. Recent posts:

• Hans von Storch on Political Advocacy

• Hypocrisy Starts at Home

• Change the Climate, Plant a Tree?

• Scott Saleska on Tuning the Climate

Sample of Recent Publications:

Reconciling the Supply of and Demand for Science (Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 10):

Dan Sarewitz, Steve Dovers, and Roger Pielke, Jr. have guest edited a special issue of Environmental Science & Policy which is titled Reconciling the Supply of and Demand for Science, with a focus on carbon cycle research. All seven papers in this special issue were published in 2007 and each of the papers has an author or co-author here at the Center.

• The opportunities and responsibility for carbon cycle science in the U.S. by L. Dilling

• The neglected heart of science policy: reconciling supply of and demand for science by D. Sarewitz and R. A. Pielke, Jr.

• Reconciling the supply of scientific information with user demands: an analysis of the problem and review of the literature by E. McNie

• Pure science or policy involvement? Ambiguous boundary-work for Swedish carbon cycle science by E. Lövbrand.

• Towards science in support of decision making: characterizing the supply of carbon cycle science by L. Dilling

• Challenges of connecting international science and local level sustainability efforts: the case of the Large-Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia by M. Lahsen and C. A. Nobre

• Reconciling the supply of and demand for carbon cycle science in the U.S. agricultural sector by N J. Logar and R. Conant

All articles are available via download from our website or can be requested by email.

Media Resources

• Hurricanes and Global Warming

• Politicization of Science

• Space Policy

• Drought Policy