But it can be difficult to communicate knowledge of a higher order without coming across as a hamfisted tubthumper or some kind of hippy.
The mission of the Jepson Herbarium is to understand and conserve the California flora through systematic, floristic, and conservation biology studies and to communicate knowledge of the flora through publications and instructional programs.
Nicholson, the first Gruber awarded to the Caribbean, will manage a climate change project in the twin-island nation of Antigua & Barbuda that aims to build resilience to climate impacts, with a focus on women's empowerment, and to communicate knowledge of climate adaptation globally.
Challenges include poor infrastructure (both basic and sophisticated), inadequate training of healthcare providers (especially in terms of acquiring specialist knowledge of chronic conditions and of communicating knowledge to lay people and patients), and high cost of care.
This account places the healthcare professional in a more traditional and directive role as an educator and emphasises the importance of communicating knowledge as the route to improving lifestyles (see Figure 3).
Although it was stressed that the indicators should be selected locally on the basis of the aspects of quality that were relevant and meaningful [ 72, 102], those tasked with compiling the reports quickly found that the terms of communicating knowledge about quality was constituted in a very specific way.
Generating, developing, integrating and communicating knowledge in all the areas of knowledge and culture are the mission and basis of the activities of the University.
Reykjavik University has the mission to create and communicate knowledge, in order to increase the competitiveness of individuals, firms and society as a whole, while at the same time enhancing the quality of life of their students and staff.
It involves different mechanisms of generating and of communicating knowledge, more actors who come from different disciplines, and different sites in which knowledge is being produced.
"Making an image of the land has always been a matter of communicating knowledge," DeLue said.
A recent article in Esquire by John H. Richardson explored the way various climate scientists (including myself) grapple with the complicated and indeed sometimes emotional task of communicating knowledge, uncertainty, and risk in a way that best informs the contentious debate over human-caused climate change and what to do about it.
