The phrase
"policy relevance" refers to how useful or important something is for making decisions or creating policies. It means that the information, research, or ideas being discussed have a direct application or impact on government actions or decision-making processes.
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To me, this seems in many ways to be more of a known unknown than an area in which some analytical breakthrough will clarify things in time
for policy relevance.
I also disagree that the question of
greatest policy relevance is «Will the climate of the 21st century will be dominated by anthropogenic warming or natural variability».
The high
policy relevance of demographic change gives statisticians working in this area a unique opportunity for applied experimentation with user engagement, communication of uncertainty, and public understanding of statistics.
Changes during in - person government session tend to focus on the comprehensiveness of examples provided and on
increasing policy relevance.
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policy relevance in European economics.
While this could be treated as simply an interesting historic «what if» debate, it has
significant policy relevance today with the future of Chrysler's plant in Windsor, Ont., in doubt.
But a senior ARS official tells ScienceInsider that it was a poorly worded effort by career officials — not anyone appointed by Trump — to remind employees of a longstanding U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy on clearing statements that have
policy relevance with senior officials before releasing them.
(Hence there would be very
little policy relevance to this result even if it were true, though note the small difference in definitions of sensitivity mentioned above).
Kobe, 12 - 14 October 2017 — The Task Force for the Future Development of APN gathered in Kobe, Japan to implement institutional recommendations for improving the effectiveness of APN and to consider concrete steps to gear its activities towards greater impact and
stronger policy relevance.
Climate sensitivity is of
direct policy relevance since it, and the level of uncertainty as to its value, is a key input into the economic models which drive cost - benefit analyses.
Scientists wishing to publish an important paper on a topic of
policy relevance desire a high impact journal with a quick turnaround on publication, and would most likely seek to publish the paper in Science, Nature, or PNAS.
Debra Roberts, Working Group II Co-Chair added: «As an IPCC Special Report focused on two Earth systems which together cover the majority of the planet's surface and which affect the majority of the global population, a diverse and skilled author team is critical in ensuring a report of the
highest policy relevance.»
We remind the reader that we considered other candidate tipping elements, which are not listed here because they did not meet conditions 2 — 4
for policy relevance.
Specific aims of the meeting will be to maximize the robustness and
policy relevance of the projections provided in the presence of model error, projection uncertainty, observational uncertainties and a heterogeneous set of models.»
The ESRC also produces a range of briefings highlighting key research findings and
policy relevance.
Each year, an independent, multidisciplinary committee of academic policy researchers evaluate the approximately 100 applicants based on the quality of analysis of the research,
policy relevance, communication, and the applicant's accomplishments and research potential.
The workshop's complementary objectives are to foster a preliminary, collegial vetting of
the policy relevance of research in progress under SciSIP grants, and to encourage SciSIP grantees to consider how their current grants might be extended, revised, augmented, or redirected in future work to more directly consider policy issues.
The need for public credibility and transparency has dramatically increased in recent years as
the policy relevance of climate research has increased.
Thus, the Coleman study failed to identify the importance of teacher quality and failed to grasp
the policy relevance of within - school variation in teacher quality.
But the projections that end up having «
policy relevance» are only loosely dependent on climate sensitivity.
Then the first panel began, comfortably far from the realm of
policy relevance, with a discussion among leading scientists of dark energy, the nature of consciousness, and the fate of the universe, led by Alan Alda.
As part of a final report to Southern in 2011 outlining the papers and presentations he produced for a $ 60,000 grant, Soon explained
the policy relevance of the research he delivered: «The hypothesized dangerous consequences of rising atmospheric CO2 are too speculative for responsible regulatory policy.»
In the climate change field, it may be that the modellers, who in some cases appear to try to drive policy, need someone in my kind of role, with enough comprehension to assess the validity of the models but with a better understanding of, and ability to communicate,
the policy relevance of the material.
Lee, who beat out several candidates for the panel's top job, has said that he wants the IPCC to focus on «
policy relevance and neutrality», to increase participation by experts from developing nations and to explore ways to involve business and industry in the IPCC process.
Peter Lang, 2015, (shorter explanation of
the policy relevance): «What's the cost of CO2 emissions abatement with wind turbines?»
This is no way diminished or altered the scientific basis or
the policy relevance of the statement included in the synthesis report.
Challenges in ensuring
the policy relevance of assessments, and interpreting and communicating their findings; and