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    The Global Environmental Assessment Project is a 5-year project based at Harvard University and sponsored by several government agencies and organizations. The project's objectives are to deepen understanding of relationships between research, assessment, and management of global environmental issues. It also aims to enhance communication among scholars and practitioners and illuminate choices facing designers of assessments. The project involves core faculty and staff, pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows, and other affiliated faculty and researchers examining issues like climate change, air pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and ENSO events.

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    The Global Environmental Assessment Project is a 5-year project based at Harvard University and sponsored by several government agencies and organizations. The project's objectives are to deepen understanding of relationships between research, assessment, and management of global environmental issues. It also aims to enhance communication among scholars and practitioners and illuminate choices facing designers of assessments. The project involves core faculty and staff, pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows, and other affiliated faculty and researchers examining issues like climate change, air pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and ENSO events.

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    Global Environmental

    Assessment Project
    based at

    Harvard University
    University Committee on the Environment
    sponsored by

    NSF, NOAA, DOE, NASA, EPA, NIGEC,


    and others

    Project Objectives
    Deepen critical understanding of the
    relationships among research, assessment
    and management in the global
    environmental arena
    Enhance communication among scholars
    and practitioners of global environmental
    assessments
    Illuminate contemporary choices facing the
    designers of global environmental
    assessments.

    Participants
    Core Faculty and Staff
    Bill Clark, Director
    Barbara Connolly
    Nancy Dickson, Assoc. Dir.
    Robert Frosch
    John Holdren
    Jill Jaeger

    Sheila Jasanoff
    Robert Keohane
    James McCarthy
    Ronald Mitchell
    Edward Parson
    Daniel Schrag

    Pre-Doctoral, Post-Doctoral, & Faculty


    Fellows (~21 to date)
    Faculty, Research, & Fellow Affiliates (~17)

    Activities
    5 year project begun in 1996
    Fellows Working Paper Series
    Practitioner & Scholar Workshops
    http://environment.harvard.edu/gea

    Issues
    Climate Change
    IPCC
    US National Assessment

    Tropospheric Air Pollutants


    Acid Rain
    Ozone

    Stratospheric Ozone
    ENSO Events

    Defining Assessment
    The Bridge Between Science and Policy
    As a report
    As a social communication
    process
    As an information and decision
    support system

    Defining Assessment
    Systematically synthesizes existing
    knowledge
    Develops a science- and technologybased understanding for policy makers
    Produces identifiable products
    Authorized by identifiable institutions

    A Conceptual Framework
    The World
    - Target Groups
    - Environmental
    Conditions

    Research &
    Technology

    Policy &
    Decision Making

    Assessment

    Effective Assessments
    Contextual
    Determinants

    Historical Context
    issue cycle

    Social & Institutional


    Context
    Issue Characteristics
    value conflicts, spatial &
    temporal scale

    User Characteristics
    interest, capacity,
    openness

    Effective Assessments
    Contextual
    Determinants
    Institutional
    Design

    Science/Policy
    Interface
    boundary organizations
    & objects

    Participation
    Segmenting the
    legitimacy market

    Uncertainty & Dissent


    risk, uncertainty, &
    indeterminacy

    Effective Assessments
    Contextual
    Determinants
    Institutional
    Design
    Elements of
    Effectiveness

    Saliency
    relevance & value

    Credibility
    authoritativeness

    Legitimacy
    fairness & openness

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