HR: 0830h
AN: GC31B-0178    [PDF]
TI: The Co-Production of Science and Policy in Integrated Climate Assessments
AU: * Lemos, M
EM: lemos@umich.edu
AF: School of Natural Resources and Environment University of Michigan, 2006 Dana Bldg 430 E University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115 United States
AU: Morehouse, B J
EM: morehoub@u.arizona.edu
AF: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth The University of Arizona, 715 N. Park Avenue (2nd Floor), Tucson, AZ 85721 United States
AB: This paper examines the use of interactive models of research in the U.S. Regional Integrated Scientific Assessments (RISAS), using as a case study the Climate Assessment of the Southwest (CLIMAS). It focuses on three conditions of interactive models: interdisciplinarity, interaction with stakeholders and production of usable knowledge and on the role of three explanatory variables \--the level of `fit' between state of knowledge production and application, disciplinary and personal flexibility, and availability of resources \--which affect the co-production of science and policy in the context of integrated assessments. It finds that although no single model can fulfill the multitude of goals of such assessments, it is in highly interactive models, which we call iterative, that the possibilities of higher levels of innovation and related social impact are most likely to occur.
DE: 1699 General or miscellaneous
SC: Global Climate Change [GC]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting