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Center for Science and Technology Policy Research - Briefing #16, 24 June 2009
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Lisa Dilling was recently appointed as an editor of Weather, Climate and Society http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/journals/wcs/index.html , a new interdisciplinary journal devoted to connecting science and society in the area of weather and climate. She was also appointed as a new member of the President's Advisory Committee on University Relations for UCAR.
Max Boykoff http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/boykoffmax.php will be joining our Center as a faculty member in August 2009. Max was a Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), as well as a Department Lecturer in the School of Geography and the Environment, at the University of Oxford. His interests include the cultural politics of climate change and transformations of carbon-based economies and societies.
The Center now has a new Western Water Assessment-funded project, "A Drought Impact and Vulnerability Indicator Suite. This project will create a set of indicators for assessing the impacts of drought across different sectors (urban, agricultural, water, recreation), with the goal of developing both research-quality time series that can be normalized and analyzed for trends, and applied indicators that can help managers assess impacts and changing vulnerabilities.
Prometheus: The Science Policy Blog http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/
As of July 31, the Center will retire its science policy weblog, Prometheus. The Prometheus archives http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/ will remain available.
We would like to thank the readers of Prometheus for their support over the past five years.
Roger Pielke, Jr. has created a new blog on science, policy and politics at http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com
Sample of Recent Publications http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/publications/recent_pubs.html
Is the UK Climate Change Act on course to fail?
Pielke, Jr., R. A., 2009. The British Climate Change Act: A Critical
Evaluation and Proposed Alternative Approach
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/4/2/024010/fulltext ,
Environmental Research Letters. Vol. 4, No. 2.
Stationarity is dead:
Pielke, Jr., R.A., 2009. Collateral Damage from the Death of Stationarity
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2725-2009.11.pdf , GEWEX Newsletter, May, pp. 5-7.
Book review of God and Country: America in Red and Blue:
Cherney, D.N. 2009. Kennedy, Sheila S., God and Country: America in Red
and Blue http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2726-2009.12.pdf , Policy Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 189-191.
The technology of air capture:
Pielke, Jr., R. A., 2009. An Idealized Assessment of the Economics of
Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide in Mitigation Policy
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2716-2009.03.pdf , Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp. 216-225.
The limits of predictability:
Dessai, S., M. Hulme, R. Lempert, and R. Pielke, Jr. 2009. Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate?
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2720-2009.08.pdf Eos, Vol 90, No. 13, pp. 111-112.
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