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Weather and Society - Toward Integrated Approaches (Paperback)
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Weather and Society - Toward Integrated Approaches (Paperback)
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There is a growing recognition from academia, government, the
private sectors, and the non-governmental sectors that integrated
thinking and problem-solving across disciplinary boundaries is
required to effectively address societal impacts issues in
meteorology and hydrology. Within the weather and climate arena
many early career physical and social scientists and engineers seek
to learn about concepts, tools, questions, and policies related to
more than one discipline but most academic departments, especially
in meteorology and hydrology, are too narrow to allow much leeway
for electives outside of their narrowly defined discipline. Weather
and Society: Integrating Social Science provides comprehensive
coverage of a new evolving problem-solving set of approaches to
weather and climate issues that successfully integrates social
science concepts and methodologies into weather and climate
research and practice.This text has developed from the work
undertaken through the WAS*IS movement (Weather and Society-
Integrated Studies group) Designed to meet the growing demand from
National Weather Service employees, international graduate
students, hydrologists and other parties interested in
understanding the societal impacts that can enhance their work as
practitioners or researchers, this book provides the first
interdisciplinary approach to the subject of weather, climate and
society. Dr Gruntfest is the director of a new program at the
University of Oklahoma called SSWIM (Social Science Woven into
Meteorology). Increasingly she receives inquiries from National
Weather Service employees, international and domestic potential
graduate students, hydrologists, and others who recognize that some
understanding of social science and societal impacts can enhance
their work as practitioners, researchers or students. They also
realize that it is difficult to find reference materials or courses
to meet their need within the traditional university departments of
meteorology, atmospheric science, hydrology, or even physical
geography.
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