ForewordPreface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I Perception and misperception in science diplomacy
Chapter 1 - Introduction - Book organisation
Chapter 2 - Adaptive decision-making process in crisis situations
Part II - Science and Diplomacy: Negotiating a Joint Engagement
Chapter 3 - Science Diplomacy
1. Introduction
2. Defining Science Diplomacy
3. Science Diplomacy: History and achievements
4. Science Diplomacy as Soft Power Exercise
5. Multilateral Science Diplomacy in Action
6. Cooperative Advisory Mechanisms
Chapter 4 - Science Diplomacy and the EU
1. Science Diplomacy and the EU: A Brief History
2. Scientific Advise in the EU Institutions
3. Responsible Research & Innovation
4. The EU's Strategy under Commissioner Moedas.
5. Cutting-Edge Year: An Insight on the EU's Actions Chapter 5 - Evidence-Informed Policymaking 1. Introduction 2. Brief History of Evidence-Based Policymaking 3. Evidence-informed policymaking in the European Union 4. The Relation between the Scientist and the Diplomat: Recommendations 5. Evidence-informed Policymaking in Action 6. Standardization vs. Experience-Based Approach 7. Evidence-informed policymaking: Leading from the shadows
Chapter 6 - Climate Change and Extreme Hazards 1. Introduction 2. Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Practice 3. Climate Change and Hydrometeorological Extreme Hazards 4. Negotiating Global Agreements with Incomplete Evidence-Informed
5. Climate Change: Citizens' Resilience and Well-Being
Chapter 7 - Evidence-informed policymaking: The Way Forward Concluding remarks to Part II
Part III - Biosecurity and Environmental Disaster: Adaptive decision-making in time of uncertainty
Chapter 8 - A major challenge to the uncertainty of modern times
1. Introduction
2. Crisis management
3. Knowing how to give a feedback
4. Risk management
5. Bioterrorism after September 11th, 2001
6. Potential global economic impact of agricultural bioterrorism
7. Environmental Disaster: A major challenge to Biosafety
8. Hyogo Framework for Action
9. Biosafety and resilience processes
Chapter 9 - Crisis Management and Risk Assessment in the EU: A General Outline 1. Introduction
2. Main operational mechanisms in the EU institutional framework
3. The European Agenda on Security
4. Risk assessment system in the EU
5. A brief history of the EU's comprehensive approach
6. The EU's Green Paper on Bio-preparedness
7. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Task Force
Chapter 10 - International Cooperation
1. Introduction
2. European and International Projects on Risk Assessment and Crisis Management
3. Stakeholders' trai
