Integrating science and policy : vulnerability and resilience in global environmental change / edited by Roger E. Kasperson and Mimi Berberian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Characterizing the science/practice gap / Roger E. Kasperson -- Knowledge to practice in the vulnerability, adaptation and resilience literature: a propositional inventory / Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner -- Integrating science and practice for the mitigation of natural disasters: barriers, bridges, propositions / Juergen Weichselgartner -- Linking vulnerability, adaptation and resilience science to practice: pathways, players and partnerships / Coleen Vogel ... [and others] -- The US climate change science program / Zachary Christman -- Linking climate change science with policy in California / Guido Franco ... [and others] -- Russia's climate policy and the Kyoto ratification deal: assessing the science/practice interface / Elena Nikitina and Vladimir Kotov -- Urban and social vulnerability to climate variability in Tijuana, Mexico / Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez -- Food insecurity in South Africa / Scott Drimie and Gina Ziervogel -- Science and vulnerability reduction in Taiwan after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake / Kuan-Hui Elaine Lin, Huei-Min Tsai and Chang-Yi David Chang -- Participatory evaluation of development interventions in a vulnerable African environment / Ton Dietz -- Science and indigenous knowledge in resource management in the Canadian Arctic / Johanna Wandel ... [and others] -- Reducing vulnerability of rural communities in the Philippines: modelling social links between science and policy / Lilibeth Acosta-Michlik and Victoria Espaldon -- Addressing vulnerability in the European programme for food aid and food security: knowledge gaps, obstacles and opportunities across the science/practice interface / Elia Machado -- Land in transition: coping with market forces in managing rangelands in Mongolia / Togtohyn Chuluun and Dennis Ojima -- Managing floods and scarcity in a monsoon climate / Louis Lebel, Po Garden and Phimphakan Lebel -- Issues that need to be addressed: assessing experience / Uno Svedin -- Directions for closing the science/practice gap / Roger E. Kasperson.