Addressing key ecological questions to support policy-making in Brazil

Addressing key ecological questions to support policy-making in Brazil.

Assessment of Research Studies in Addressing Key Reactivity Policy-Relevant Questions

Question UCR -Carter GT -Russell MCNC -Arunachulam Reviewer's Comments 1 What is the hypothesis that we want to test? It is possible to develop a means to quantify differences in ozone impacts of the major classes of emitted VOCs sufficiently well that these relative ozone impact quantifications can be effectively used in VOC regulations to reduce ambient ozone levels. For this to be the case, ...

Education Is a Key Policy Instrument for Addressing Unemployment, Rising

inequality and falling intergenerational mobility, the social problems that were the focus of the first three contributions to CEP's 'big ideas' series. In the latest overview of the Centre's research, Sandra McNally surveys evaluations of a wide range of school policies in the UK.

Pharmaceutical expenditure forecast model to support health policy decision making

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE With constant incentives for healthcare payers to contain their pharmaceutical budgets, modelling policy decision impact became critical. The objective of this project was to test the impact of various policy decisions on pharmaceutical budget (developed for the European Commission for the project 'European Union (EU) Pharmaceutical expenditure forecast' - http://ec.eur...

VirSim - a Model to Support Pandemic Policy Making

A simulation model called VirSim was developed to aid policy making in Sweden. The model simulates the spread of pandemic influenza, using real population data on a national and regional level. Swedish authorities wanted a model that was both quick to run and to implement as a complement to the existing model MicroSim. The possibility to interactively investigate the effect of varying different...