Roger Kasperson is Research Professor at Clark University and a Visiting Scholar at START in Washington, DC. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Risk Analysis. He has served on numerous committees of the US National Research Council. He was a former Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute. Mimi Berberian is a Senior Staff Associate at the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University. She has participated with researchers in various studies of natural and technological hazards, risk assessment and risk management, and global environmental change. She has a long experience in editing and has facilitated the preparation of numerous research results for publication as journal articles and books. Among those published are Equity Issues in Radioactive Waste Management, Climate Impact Assessment, and Social Contours of Risk.
Introduction: Characterizing the Science / Practice Gap Part 1: What do we
Know Now? 1. Knowledge to Practice in the Vulnerability, Adaptation, and
Resilience Literature: A Propositional Inventory 2. Integrating Science and
Practice for the Mitigation of Natural Disasters: Barriers, Bridges,
Propositions 3. Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Resilience Science
to Practice: Pathways, Players, and Partnerships Part 2: Growing Political
Urgency: Climate Change 4. From the U.S. Global Change Research Act (1990)
to the Climate Change Science Program 5. Linking Climate Change Science
with Policy in California 6. Russia's Climate Policy and the Kyoto
Ratification Deal: Assessing the Science/Practice Interface 7. Urban and
Social Vulnerability to Climate Variability in Tijuana, Mexico Part 3: The
Science / Practice Gap: Global Perspectives 8. Food Insecurity in South
Africa 9. Science and Vulnerability in Taiwan after the 1999 Chi-Chi
Earthquake 10. Participatory Evaluation of Development Interventions in a
Vulnerable African Environment 11. Science and Indigenous Knowledge in
Resource Management in the Canadian Arctic 12. Reducing Vulnerability of
Rural Communities in the Philippines: Modeling Social Links between Science
and Policy 13. Addressing Vulnerability in the European Program for Food
Aid and Food Security: Knowledge Gaps, Obstacles, and Opportunities Across
the Science/Practice Interface 14. Land in Transition: Coping with Market
Forces in Managing Rangelands in Mongolia 15. Managing Floods and Scarcity
in a Monsoon Climate Part 4: Where Do We Go From Here? 16. Issues That Need
to be Addressed: Assessing Experience 17. Directions for Closing the
Science/Practice Gap
