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This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary
research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision
making. For over 30 years, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and
students anchored at Carnegie Mellon University, joined by
investigators and students from a number of other collaborating
institutions across North America, Europe, and Australia, have
worked together to better understand the global changes that are
being caused by both human activities and natural causes. This book
tells the story of their successful interdisciplinary work. With
each chapter written in the first person, the authors have three
key objectives: (1) to document and provide an accessible account
of how they have framed and addressed a range of the key problems
that are posed by the human dimensions of global change; (2) to
illustrate how investigators and graduate students have worked
together productively across different disciplines and locations on
common problems; and (3) to encourage funders and scholars across
the world to undertake similar large- scale interdisciplinary
research activities to meet the world's largest challenges.
Exploring topics such as energy efficiency, public health, and
climate adaptation, and with a final chapter dedicated to lessons
learned, this innovative volume will be of great interest to
students and scholars of climate change, energy transitions and
environmental studies more broadly.
This book explores the role and importance of interdisciplinary
research in addressing key issues in climate and energy decision
making. For over 30 years, an interdisciplinary team of faculty and
students anchored at Carnegie Mellon University, joined by
investigators and students from a number of other collaborating
institutions across North America, Europe, and Australia, have
worked together to better understand the global changes that are
being caused by both human activities and natural causes. This book
tells the story of their successful interdisciplinary work. With
each chapter written in the first person, the authors have three
key objectives: (1) to document and provide an accessible account
of how they have framed and addressed a range of the key problems
that are posed by the human dimensions of global change; (2) to
illustrate how investigators and graduate students have worked
together productively across different disciplines and locations on
common problems; and (3) to encourage funders and scholars across
the world to undertake similar large- scale interdisciplinary
research activities to meet the world's largest challenges.
Exploring topics such as energy efficiency, public health, and
climate adaptation, and with a final chapter dedicated to lessons
learned, this innovative volume will be of great interest to
students and scholars of climate change, energy transitions and
environmental studies more broadly.
Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy
analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping
readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the
underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools
or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues
in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the
critical issues of taste, professional responsibility, ethics, and
values that are associated with policy analysis and research.
Topics covered include policy problems formulated in terms of
utility maximization such as benefit-cost, decision, and
multi-attribute analysis, issues in the valuation of intangibles,
uncertainty in policy analysis, selected topics in risk analysis
and communication, limitations and alternatives to the paradigm of
utility maximization, issues in behavioral decision theory, issues
related to organizations and multiple agents, and selected topics
in policy advice and policy analysis for government.
This book explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Such communications are designed to contain, in readily usable form, the information that people need to make informed decisions about risks to health, safety, and the environment. The approach draws together methods from the natural and social sciences, providing a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration. It is demostrated with varied examples including electromagnetic fields, climate change, radon, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy
analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping
readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the
underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools
or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues
in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the
critical issues of taste, professional responsibility, ethics, and
values that are associated with policy analysis and research.
Topics covered include policy problems formulated in terms of
utility maximization such as benefit-cost, decision, and
multi-attribute analysis, issues in the valuation of intangibles,
uncertainty in policy analysis, selected topics in risk analysis
and communication, limitations and alternatives to the paradigm of
utility maximization, issues in behavioral decision theory, issues
related to organizations and multiple agents, and selected topics
in policy advice and policy analysis for government.
This book explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Such communications are designed to contain, in readily usable form, the information that people need to make informed decisions about risks to health, safety, and the environment. The approach draws together methods from the natural and social sciences, providing a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration. It is demostrated with varied examples including electromagnetic fields, climate change, radon, and sexually transmitted diseases.
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