Harmonizing Science, Politics, and Policy
in Natural Resources Management

Resources

Publications

Want to read more about the Science Impact Collaborative and Joint Fact Finding? See our Publications section.

Best of MUSIC

To read the full reports of each project please refer to the following links.

Alexis Schulman: Bridging the Divide: Incorporating Local Ecological Knowledge into U.S. Natural Resource Management

Tijs van Maasakkers: Boundary Management in the Atchafalaya Basin

Beaudry Kock: Collaborative Agent-Based Modeling in the lower Arkansas Basin of Colorado

Katherine Hay Wallace Antos: Trading Pollution for Water Quality: Assessing the Effects of Market-Based Instruments in Three Basins

Nathan Lemphers: Cooperative Sagebrush Initiative

Evan Paul: A Tool for Public Engagement

Jennifer Edwards: A Role for Technology Demonstration Projects in Clean Energy Planning in the Case of Offshore Wind

Featured Publication

A DIALOGUE, NOT A DIATRIBE. Effective Integration of Science and Policy through Joint Fact Finding
Herman A. Karl, Lawrence E. Susskind,
and Katherine H. Wallace - January 2007
abstract | download pdf

Games

MUSIC and the Consensus Building offer a series of role play simulations, or "games," that parallel many real world environmental disputes and scientific controversies. For more information, see our Games section.

Featured Game

wind farmWind energy is a viable source of clean, renewable energy. Large areas of America’s continental shelf along the eastern seaboard are suitable sites for offshore wind farms. The first such site has been formally proposed. It is located in Nantucket Sound (Massachusetts) in federal waters. more:::