Browsing by Author "Dickson, Nancy"
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Assessing vulnerability to global environmental risks
Clark, William; Jager, Jill; Corell, Robert; Kasperson, Roger; Mccarthy, James; Cash, David; Cohen, Stewart J.; Desanker, Paul; Dickson, Nancy; Epstein, Paul; Guston, David; Hall, J. Michael; Jaeger, Carlo; Janetos, Anthony; Leary, Neil; Levy, Marc; Luers, Amy; MacCracken, Michael; Melillo, Jerry; Moss, Richard; Nigg, Joanne M.; Parry, Martin L.; Parson, Edward; Ribot, Jesse C.; Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim; Schrag, Daniel; Seielstad, George A.; Shea, Eileen; Vogel, Coleen; Wilbanks, Thomas (Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, 2000-09)The last several years have witnessed a significant evolution in what society wants to know about global environmental risks such as climate change, ozone depletion, and biodiversity loss. Until recently, most scientific ... -
Boundary Organizations, Objects and Agents: Linking Knowledge with Action in Agroforestry Watersheds. Report of a Workshop held in Batu, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, 26–29 July 2007
McNie, Elizabeth C.; van Noordwijk, Meine; Clark, William; Dickson, Nancy; Sakuntaladewi, Niken; Suyanto; Joshi, Laxman; Leimona, Beria; Hairiah, Kurniatun; Khususiyah, Noviana (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-12)On July 26-29, 2007, researchers, scholars, and practitioners convened at Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, to share, learn about, and discuss, preliminary findings from a research project conducted by the World ... -
Boundary Work for Sustainable Development: Natural Resource Management at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Clark, William; Tomich, Thomas P.; Noordwijk, Meine van; Guston, David; Delia, Catacutan; Dickson, Nancy M.; McNie, Elizabeth (National Academy of Sciences, 2011)Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of “boundary work” through which research communities organize their ... -
Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition
Clark, William; Kristjanson, Patti; Campbell, Bruce; Juma, Calestous; Holbrook, Noel Michele; Nelson, Gerald; Dickson, Nancy M. (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2010)The goal of the workshop was to build a more strategic and integrated perspective on the threats and opportunities latent in the food / climate issue, and to discuss the hard challenges of moving forward toward common goals ... -
Enhancing Food Security in an Era of Global Climate Change: An Executive Session on Grand Challenges of the Sustainability Transition, San Servolo Island, Venice – June 6-9, 2010
Clark, William; Kristjanson, Patti; Campbell, Bruce; Juma, Calestous; Holbrook, Noel M.; Nelson, Gerald; Dickson, Nancy (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-07)The goal of the workshop was to build a more strategic and integrated perspective on the threats and opportunities latent in the food / climate issue, and to discuss the hard challenges of moving forward toward common goals ... -
Evolution of Models to Support Community and Policy Action with Science: Balancing Pastoral Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Savannas of East Africa
Reid, R.J.; Nkedianye, D.; Said, M. Y.; Kealo, D.; Neselle, M.; Makui, O.; Onetu, L.; Kiruswa, S.; Kamuaro, N. Ole; Kristjanson, P.; Ogutu, J.; BurnSilver, S. B.; Goldman, M. J.; Boone, R.B.; Galvin, K.A.; Dickson, Nancy M.; Clark, William (National Academy of Sciences, 2009)We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviation and wildlife ... -
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
Cash, David; Clark, William; Alcock, F.; Dickson, Nancy M.; Eckley, N.; Guston, D. H.; Jager, J.; Mitchell, R. B. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003)The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earth's life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science ... -
Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
Kristjanson, Patti; Reid, Robin S.; Dickson, Nancy M.; Clark, William; Romney, Dannie; Puskur, Ranjitha; MacMillan, Susan; Grace, Delia (National Academy of Sciences, 2009)We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market ... -
Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation: What Works?
Kristjanson, Patti; Reid, Robin; Dickson, Nancy; Clark, William; Vishnubhotla, Prasad; Romney, Dannie; Bezkorowajnyj, Peter; Said, Mohammed; Kaelo, Dickson; Makui, Ogeli; Nkedianye, David; Nyangaga, Julius; Okwi, Paul; Puskur, Ranjitha; Tarawali, Shirley; MacMillan, Susan; Grace, Delia; Randolph, Tom; Affognon, Hippolyte (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2008-07)This paper asks ‘What kinds of approaches and institutions, under what sorts of conditions, are most effective for harnessing scientific knowledge in support of strategies for environmentally sustainable development and ... -
Linking Knowledge with Action Using Community Facilitators to Span Boundaries: Lessons from East Africa
Nkedianye, David; Kaelo, Dickson; Reid, Robin; Neselle, Moses; Onetu, Leonard; Makui, Ogeli; Said, Mohammed; Kiruswa, Steve; Kristjanson, Patti; Kamuaro, Ololtisatti; Kifugo, Shem; Dickson, Nancy M.; Clark, William (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2009)Advances of science may take much longer to translate into helpful societal actions without deliberate linkages among policy makers, practitioners, and scientists and an integration of their knowledge systems. Successful ... -
The press and global environmental change: an international comparison of elite newspaper reporting on the acid rain issue from 1972 to 1992
Clark, William; Dickson, Nancy (Harvard Kennedy School, 1995-12)In an increasingly democratic world, the press would seem destined for ever more pivotal roles in the policy process. Yet in a world that is also increasingly interdependent, with each nation's affairs increasingly affecting ... -
Salience, Credibility, Legitimacy and Boundaries: Linking Research, Assessment and Decision Making
Cash, David; Clark, William; Alcock, Frank; Dickson, Nancy M.; Eckley, Noelle; Jäger, Jill (2003)The boundary between science and policy is only one of several boundaries that hinder the linking of scientific and technical information to decision making. Managing boundaries between disciplines, across scales of geography ... -
The Sustainability Science Program: Celebrating a decade of use-inspired research
Clark, William; Dickson, Nancy (Harvard University Center for the Environment, 2016) -
Sustainability Science: The Emerging Research Program
Clark, William; Dickson, Nancy M. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003)The last decade has witnessed the emergence of an array of increasingly vibrant movements to harness science and technology (S&T) in the quest for a transition toward sustainability. These movements take as their point of ... -
Toward a General Theory of Boundary Work: Insights from the CGIAR’s Natural Resource Management Programs
Clark, William; Tomich, Thomas P.; van Noordwijk, Meine; Dickson, Nancy M.; Catacutan, Delia; Guston, David; McNie, Elizabeth (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of “boundary work” through which research communities organize their ... -
Toward a general theory of boundary work: Insights from the CGIAR’s natural resource management programs
Clark, William; Tomich, Thomas P.; van Noordwijk, Meine; Dickson, Nancy; Catacutan, Delia; Guston, David; McNie, Elizabeth (Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-07)Previous research on the determinants of effectiveness in knowledge systems seeking to support sustainable development has highlighted the importance of “boundary work” through which research communities organize their ...