caa a22 4500 46790376X CHVBK 20180406152827.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9093-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9093-5 Linking Water Science to Policy: Results from a Series of National Workshops on Water [Elektronische Daten] [Karl Schaefer, Alex Bielak] To ensure science better informs the decision-making process, researchers and policy/program managers need to understand and respect each other's way of working, culture and operational timelines. However, there is little practical guidance on how this should be done and even less documented experience with specific mechanisms that better link these two groups. The published literature on information transfer has largely emphasized the dissemination of standard packages of information to ill-defined constituencies whose needs for scientific information are not well understood. Environment Canada's National Water Research Institute, on behalf of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, led a series of "Linking Water Science to Policy Workshops” as one such mechanism by which recent science could be delivered to practitioners, and practitioners could identify their research needs to scientists and research managers. There is a pressing need to explore and share experiences using creative mechanisms for sustained dialogue and networking between scientists and policy and program managers. The lessons learned from the workshop series and the need for science to continually inform the decision-making process has particular relevance for Canada's Ecosystem Initiatives given their integrated, place-based focus on long-term restoration and protection, and the challenge of continually changing ecosystems. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 communication nationallicence decision-making nationallicence policy nationallicence programs nationallicence science nationallicence workshops nationallicence Schaefer Karl Science Liaison Branch, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario, Canada aut Bielak Alex Science Liaison Branch, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario, Canada aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 113/1-3(2006-02-01), 431-442 0167-6369 113:1-3<431 2006 113 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9093-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9093-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schaefer Karl Science Liaison Branch, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bielak Alex Science Liaison Branch, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 113/1-3(2006-02-01), 431-442 0167-6369 113:1-3<431 2006 113 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer