87th AMS Annual Meeting

Joint Session 5: intersection between climate change policy and economics (Joint between the 2nd Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)

Thursday, 18 January 2007: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
214C (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Cochairs:  Mathew Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts and Anthony Socci, AMS Policy Program
Papers:
  8:30 AM
  8:45 AM
The Role of Boundary Organizations in the Dissemination of Climate Information to Support Agricultural Production in Argentina
Alejandra Celis, CENTRO Estudios Sociales y Ambientales, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and M. G. Caputo and G. Podesta

  9:00 AM
A Climate Services Division-A Second Look
Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK

  9:15 AM
  9:30 AM
Individual Decision-Making: Where Climate and Policy Meet
Guillermo Podesta, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and E. U. Weber, F. Bert, D. Letson, C. A. Laciana, M. Re, and A. N. Menendez

  9:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  11:00 AM
  11:30 AM
Next steps for the AMS symposia on policy and socio-economic research
William Hooke, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC