Those are very scientific policy issues that the Department of Ecology is wrestling with.
What in other circumstances would be a question of scientific policy (which is difficult enough) has become wrapped up in the broader, unsettled cultural struggle that divides our politics today, University of Michigan professor Andrew J.
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Geoengineering the climate is an option that is now gaining scientific, policy, and public attention but it involves considerable uncertainty and risk.
Until today, there was no on-going global mechanism recognized by both the scientific and policy communities to gather, synthesize and analyse information for decision making.
In order to maintain the momentum, OSTP Director John Holdren today is requesting that every covered department and agency provide its draft scientific integrity policy within 90 days from today.
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There was no on-going global mechanism recognized by both the scientific and policy communities to gather, synthesize and analyse information on biodiversity for decision making until IPBES was established in April 2012.
It provides a mechanism recognized by both the scientific and policy communities to synthesize, review, assess and critically evaluate relevant information and knowledge generated worldwide by governments, academia, scientific organizations, non-governmental organizations and indigenous communities.
Given their authorities, programs, and expertise, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) have institutional capacities that can contribute significantly to the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and restoration efforts, including scientific and policy expertise as well as experience gained in the Task Force process and other planning efforts in the Gulf area.
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The goal of more widely applying experiments to policy is not, therefore, some fairy tale of the scientific management of policy, but that we can do a little better on the margin in some cases.
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Even so, I would not advocate that people who hold a contrary belief be excluded from scientific discussion or policy positions.
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Co-sponsored by UNESCO, IPBES is an interface between the scientific community and policy makers that aims to build capacity for and strengthen the use of science in policy making.
While the benefits of local and indigenous knowledge in reducing disaster risk are increasingly being acknowledged, a challenge remains: how do you integrate such knowledge constructively with scientific knowledge and policy?
International scientific experts, policy makers, business people, media and the general public will have an opportunity to share opinions and debate on new breakthroughs occurring in the continuously evolving world of science.
This book presents a current and global synthesis of scientific findings and policy recommendations for scientists, water managers and policy makers towards adaptive management of groundwater sustainability under future climate change and variability.
Today, we all are relying on DOE for policy and scientific leadership, as well as numerous sources of funding for innovation and other support.
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But they expect serious scientific and public-policy issues to be properly assessed, not massaged away by slick marketing and public relations in the interests of private profit.
Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
More particularly, cooperation between the scientific community, educational policy makers, parents, researchers of Learning and Natural Sciences, teachers and the industry is sought, so that they can make changes in school classes.
The Working Group was created as an initial step in advancing the scientific, management and policy goals of the Blue Carbon Initiative, whose founding members include Conservation International (CI), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
In the end progress hinges on government policy that encourages scientific innovation and research.
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In the process, the scientific controversy would distort the policy response and expose the public to potentially serious harm.
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This is a picture perfect means of analyzing policy through a scientific lens.
The Center is particularly interested in the policy consequences of making the government the sole funding provider for policy-related scientific research.
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It is both an actively debated scientific topic, and a public policy question of huge importance to all of humanity, and the world.
Professor Phelps rightly rejects as solutions either government funding of scientific research or an explicit industrial policy in which the government picks winners.
Recommendations for national capacity development on training and re-training personnel for quality ECCE (policy, systems, scientific research, innovations and curriculum development) will be developed.
Thus, federal regulatory policy turns sensible, scientific regulation on its head.
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Reed Elsevier, which in an unrelated move is to merge with Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch publishing giant, will keep New Scientist, which suits its policy of concentrating on scientific, medical and legal publishing.
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