Front Cover; Integrating Science and Policy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Part I -- Introduction; 1 Characterizing the Science/Practice Gap; Part II -- What Do We Know Now?; 2 Knowledge to Practice in the Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience Literature: A Propositional Inventory; 3 Integrating Science and Practice for the Mitigation of Natural Disasters: Barriers, Bridges, Propositions; 4 Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience Science to Practice: Pathways, Players and Partnerships. Part III -- Growing Political Urgency: Climate Change 5 The US Climate Change Science Program; 6 Linking Climate Change Science with Policy in California; 7 Russia's Climate Policy and the Kyoto Ratification Deal: Assessing the Science/Practice Interface; 8 Urban and Social Vulnerability to Climate Variability in Tijuana, Mexico; Part IV -- The Science/Practice Gap: Global Perspectives; 9 Food Insecurity in South Africa; 10 Science and Vulnerability Reduction in Taiwan after the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake; 11 Participatory Evaluation of Development Interventions in a Vulnerable African Environment. 12 Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Resource Management in the Canadian Arctic13 Reducing Vulnerability of Rural Communities in the Philippines: Modelling Social Links between Science and Policy; 14 Addressing Vulnerability in the European Programme for Food Aid and Food Security: Knowledge Gaps, Obstacles and Opportunities Across the Science/Practice Interface; 15 Land in Transition: Coping with Market Forces in Managing Rangelands in Mongolia; 16 Managing Floods and Scarcity in a Monsoon Climate; Part V -- Where Do We Go from Here? 17 Issues that Need to be Addressed: Assessing Experience18 Directions for Closing the Science/Practice Gap; Index.

As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual decisions made by practitioners remains paramount. This book aims to help close the gap between science and practice. Based on a two year collaborative project between Harvard and Clark Universities, the book takes as its focus the vulnerability and resilience of people around the world to the effects of environmental change, a mature area of research in which one might expect the gap between science and policy/practice to have been extensively br.