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[Toss Gascoigne]

The Geological Society of London has just issued a new book, edited my
myself, Brian Marker and Chris Pereira entitled "Communicating  
Environmental
Geoscience". More details available at the Geolsoc bookshop -
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/publications/bookshop/
See "New publications".

This is the major output to date of the IUGS-GEM working Group
"Communicating Environmental Geoscience"

http://www.mun.ca/canqua/ceg/

Description of book follows:


This collection of papers addresses the issues surrounding  
communication of
environmental geoscience. Geologists whose research deals with  
environmental
problems such as landslides, floods, earthquakes and other natural  
hazards
that affect people's health and safety, must communicate their results
effectively to the public, policy makers and politicians. There are many
examples of geological studies being ignored in policy and public  
action;
this is in due in part to geoscientists being poor communicators. These
papers document issues in communicating environmental geoscience,  
outline
successes and failures through case studies, describe ways in which
geoscientists can improve communication skills and show how new  
methods can
make communication more effective.


(Posted by David Liverman:  dliverman at gov.nl.ca)


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