Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Author "Cash, David"

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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 ...

    • From Science to Policy: Assessing the Assessment Process 

      Cash, David; Clark, William
      Global environmental change is increasingly understood to have causes, consequences, and responses which span multiple levels, from the local to the global. The multi-level nature of such problems has required a radical ...

    • Information as Influence: How Institutions Mediate the Impact of Scientific Assessments on Global Environmental Affairs 

      Clark, William; Mitchell, Ronald; Cash, David; Alcock, Frank (John F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University., 2002)
      The recognition that information matters in world affairs raises a number of questions as to when, how, and under what conditions it influences the behavior of policy actors. Despite the vast and growing array of institutions ...

    • 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 ...

    • Report of the workshop on boundary organizations in environmental policy and science 

      Guston, David; Clark, William; Keating, Terry; Cash, David; Moser, Susanne; Miller, Clark; Powers, Charles (Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, 2000-04)
      Boundary organizations are institutions that straddle the shifting divide between politics and science. They draw their incentives from and produce outputs for principals in both domains and thus, it is hypothesized, ...

    • 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 ...