Panel discussion (1)
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The document outlines questions from a panel discussion at the ReVA-MAIA Conference on using science to assess environmental vulnerabilities. The panel focused on challenges faced today and in the future, how to best communicate science and tools to decision-makers, the importance of quantifying uncertainty, and how assessment tools can encourage political collaboration across jurisdictions.
Panel discussion (1)
- 1. Panel DiscussionPanel Discussion Facilitated by Kent Thornton, FTN Associates, Ltd. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities
- 2. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities 1.What are the top three challenges / problems that you are facing today? 2.What are the top three challenges / problems that you are anticipating in five years? 3.What are the top three challenges / problems that you are anticipating in ten years?
- 3. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities What should we focus on to make the biggest positive impact?
- 4. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities 1.What information and/or tools do you need most? 2.Did anything presented here meet that need?
- 5. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities How can we best communicate and transfer ReVA-MAIA science and tools to you? We want them to be used in decision-making!
- 6. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities 1.How important is it that uncertainty be quantified? 2. How “certain” do you need to be? 3.How “certain” are you with current information and tools?
- 7. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities Did the conference provide any information that might change / impact decisions and possibly improve outcomes?
- 8. ReVA-MAIA Conference: Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities Local politicians are motivated by desires for (1) political power and (2) resources (i.e., $, employment) for the jurisdiction. How do you use the information our assessment tools produce to effectively mediate competition among jurisdictions and encourage effective political collaboration?
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