The bad news is that there is a great deal of confusion about basic facts relevant to policy.
This arena remains dogged by durable uncertainty on time scales relevant to policy debates even as the long-term picture of centuries of rising seas is clear.
But what is most relevant to policy, America did not become a leader simply because it had been endowed by nature with this bounty of resources, as we are typically taught in our high school textbooks.
Many demographers in California said they were focusing on other indicators of shifting diversity, which Mr. Myers said might be more relevant to policy makers seeking to understand the multiethnic balance in their cities.
This paper provides a first example of a practical application of the Functional Land Management concept relevant to policy stakeholders.
Knowledge about the determinants of consumption of alcoholic beverages and the price and income elasticity of different consumer segments is highly relevant to policy decisions.
This subtle conceptual shift has significant implications for phrasing research questions, generating hypotheses, designing research studies, and making research results more relevant to policy and practice.
As discussed above in Section 2.1 most economists distinguish between positive and normative economics, and most would argue that economics is mainly relevant to policy because of the (positive) information it provides concerning the consequences of policy.
At the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, "The goal is to do research in global change relevant to policy," says Leen Hordijk, IIASA's director.
