SPARC - Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate
Introduction
The relationship between science policy decisions and climate policy decisions has not been systematically examined. SPARC will help fill this gap. The SPARC research agenda will focus on two themes: • Reconciling Supply and Demand for climate research, or how research agendas are developed and user demand for research assessed; and • Sensitivity Analysis, or how specific issues are prioritized given the multiple causes of global environmental change.
Further Details
Over the past 25 years, U.S. climate science policy has allocated tens of billions of dollars to reduce uncertainty about future climate behavior with the expectation that the resulting scientific knowledge will enable, support, and improve climate policy decisions. The effectiveness of this strategy hinges upon the relationship between science policy decisions and climate policy decisions. Science policy decisions are defined as those concerned with governing the climate science research enterprise. We distinguish such decisions from climate policy decisions, which are those made in anticipation of or in response to climate change. The relationship between science policy decisions and climate policy decisions has not been systematically examined. SPARC will help fill this gap. The SPARC research agenda will focus on two themes: • Reconciling Supply and Demand for climate research, or how research agendas are developed and user demand for research assessed; and • Sensitivity Analysis, or how specific issues are prioritized given the multiple causes of global environmental change. SPARC is a joint project of the University of Colorado's Center for Science and Policy Technology Research and the Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy, & Outcomes, sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). Eva Lövbrand will during the period 2006-2008 contribute to the SPARC project’s reconciliation theme as a part of her post-doctoral research, and primarily focus on European climate research arena.
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