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Briefing #19, 18 May 2010The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research is working to improve how science and technology policies address societal needs. Please let us know what information you might like to receive by emailing us.
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Lisa Dilling Awarded NOAA-SARP Grant Lisa Dilling’s NOAA-SARP proposal, Evaluating adaptive policies for urban water resource management: Interactions between short-term drought responses and long-term climate change adaptation strategies, has been recommended for funding. The proposal is a collaborative effort among researchers at the University of Colorado, NCAR, and NOAA. The project will examine through detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of selected municipal water systems how drought policies interact with both short-term drought and long-term climate change. It will ask whether adjustment today or in the past leads to more resilient systems across climate time scales. It will also examine how more efficient and/or flexible water use may increase the need for, and value of, weather and climate information and technology. Read More ... |
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New Center Books to be Published Soon Roger Pielke, Jr. and Bobbie Klein have edited a book based on the highly acclaimed Presidential Science Advisor lecture series held at CU-Boulder in 2005-06. The book, Presidential Science Advisors: Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics, will be published in August 2010 by Springer. Presidential Science Advisors will offer unique first-hand perspectives of the science advisors to the president, from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush. It includes some very unique history (e.g., Edward David’s chapter provides perspective on how President Nixon used the science advisor for political purposes that have been reported nowhere else to our knowledge). |
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The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming by Roger Pielke, Jr., seeks to reframe the debate over climate policy in the context of the disappointing results of the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference and the lost trust of the public in the climate science community. The Climate Fix discusses climate science, widely held fallacies in conventional climate policy, the simple math of decarbonization, the misframing of climate change in international debates, adaptation and the politicization of climate science. The book concludes by turning climate policy upside-down, recommending a pragmatic and oblique reframing of the issue as a way forward. The Climate Fix will be published by Basic books and will be available in September 2010. |
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Reducing Green House Gas emissions From Activities of the UK Music Industry Appraising Media Ecosystem Services Around the Globe How Can Experts Orient Themselves in a Highly Contested Political Arena? The Empanelment of Scientific Advisory Committees Sweeping Reform of the IPCC Four Books Illustrate that Exhortation and Authority are Not Enough to Solve the Climate Crisis What to do in the Aftermath of the Climate Policy "Crash"? Adapting the United States to Climate Change Impacts All articles are available via download from our website or can be requested by email. |
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