U31A:
How Science Influences Action: Responding to Climate Change in Developing Countries


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Session ID#: 53016

Session Description:
Science can provide significant insight into potential impacts from climate change.  However, many developing countries face challenges in understanding how to apply that information to balance immediate development needs against planning for climate stresses that may seem uncertain or far out into the future.  How can public health agencies enhance their resilience to future climate impacts while also addressing large gaps in care? How can countries realistically respond to future climate stresses on agriculture when a large proportion of the population are subsistence farmers?  How do we balance a response to changes in water flows from climate against increasing demand from growing populations? Science can help address such development challenges, but it requires working with partners beyond the research community and thinking beyond the normal scientific boxes.  This session will explore best practices in and success stories of using climate science to inform decision making in developing countries.
OSPA Liaison:  Tegan Blaine, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Convener:  Tegan Blaine, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Rosalind West, Department for International Development (DFID), London, United Kingdom, Ana Bucher, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States and John M. Balbus, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tegan Blaine, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Tegan Blaine, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa, Washington, DC, United States and Ana Bucher, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

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