Water Stewardship Information Sources
| Citation | Prescott, CE and Weese, K. 2014. Crossing the divide: Engaging scientists and policy-makers in adapting forest management to climate change in British Columbia. The Forestry Chronicle 90:89-95. |
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| Organization | UBC |
| URL | http://pubs.cif-ifc.org/doi/abs/10.5558/tfc2014-014 |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | The Future Forest Ecosystems Scientific Council (FFESC) was created in 2008 following a one-time allocation of funding from the BC provincial government to support research that would inform adaptation of BC’s current forest management policies to a changing climate. A key goal of the council was to maximize the utility of the research to inform provincial policy. The eightstep process that we developed to achieve this goal is described in this paper. In roughly chronological order, the eight steps were: determining the research needed to inform policy, connecting scientists and policy-makers, requiring interdisciplinary teams including both natural and social scientists and relevant stakeholders, assessing proposals for their value to inform policy, fostering scientific excellence, fostering ongoing communication between scientists and policy-makers, tailoring communication to policy-makers, and disseminating the policy-relevant outcomes in a timely and targeted manner. Based on the FFESC experience, we suggest best practices for engaging policy-makers in research and scientists in policy development and adaptation. Keywords: science, policy development, forest management, climate change, interdisciplinary research, client-based research, best practices |
| Information Type | article |
| Regional Watershed | Province |
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| Project status | complete |
| Contact Name | Cindy Prescott |
| Contact Email | [email protected] |