Workshop: Environmental Science in the Context of Court Decisions as a Critical Mode of Informal Science Education

该奖项支持一个为期两天的研讨会，以促进科学家和法律的学者之间的合作，以实现更有效的科学在司法背景下的沟通。研讨会将汇集法律的学者，社会科学家，气候学家，以及来自能源，投资者和保险界的主要领导人，以建立一个研究网络，有效地沟通和连接科学用于法院判决。本次研讨会的基础是理解法院系统是一个很少被承认的，但关键的非正式科学教育和决策领域。包括气候学、经济学、法医学和健康科学在内的许多科学领域经常影响法院的判决。该讲习班将促进建立一个法律-科学交流研究网络，以改变在法律的环境中如何发展和使用科学。它还将推动考虑利益攸关方在共同处理法律的和科学问题时的不同需求和议程。该讲习班有望对科学、法律的、能源、投资者和保险界以及公众对科学及其在政策制定中的作用的理解产生更广泛的重要影响。该研讨会旨在促进法律的，科学和商业团体的合作，以推进法院系统和科学的工作，并进一步促进非正式的科学学习。研讨会将包括一系列讨论，汇集了不同学科的学者，旨在建立合作和研讨会后进一步参与的机会。将有四个研讨会，包括演讲和讨论。一个会议的重点是法律的和科学的合作，包括考虑这种合作的范围，已被使用的科学，取得的进展，以及遇到的挑战。另一个会议侧重于极端事件归因的新兴科学，这是一个相对年轻的研究领域，旨在定量评估个别极端事件风险的变化（即，热浪、干旱、洪水）。它将包括科学家使用的各种方法，工具和语言的讨论，以建立跨学科参与的基础。第三份报告侧重于用于处理气候变化诉讼的法律的框架和办法。第四个奖项侧重于研讨会后的小组活动，包括制定实施计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a two-day workshop to promote collaborative engagements between scientists and legal scholars to bring about more effective communication of science within judicial contexts. The workshop will bring together legal scholars, social scientists, climatologists, and key leaders from the energy, investor, and insurances communities to build a research network that effectively communicates and connects science to be used in court decisions. The basis of this workshop is the understanding that the court system is a rarely acknowledged, yet critical, realm of informal science education and policy-making. Many scientific fields including climatology, economics, forensics, and the health sciences have often affected decisions in the courts. This workshop will catalyze a research network of legal-scientific exchange that will serve to transform how science is developed for and used in legal settings. It will also advance the consideration of distinct stakeholder needs and agendas in their diverse engagement with conjointly legal and scientific issues. This workshop promises critical broader impacts to the scientific, legal, energy, investor and insurance communities, as well as to the public understanding of science and of its role in policy development. This workshop aims to catalyze collaborations across legal, scientific, and business groups to advance work in the court system and in science, and to further informal science learning. The workshop will include a series of discussions that brings together scholars across different disciplines with the intent of building collaborations and further opportunities for engagement after the workshop. There will be four workshop sessions, including presentations and discussions. One session focuses on legal and scientific collaborations to date including consideration of the scope of such collaborations, the science that has been used, the advances made, and the challenges encountered. Another session focuses on the emerging science of extreme event attribution, a relatively young field of research that seeks to quantitatively assess the change in risk of individual extremes events (i.e., heat waves, drought, floods). It will include a discussion of the diverse methods, tools, and language used by scientists in order to build a foundation for cross-disciplinary engagement. A third focuses on legal frameworks and approaches used to address climate change litigation. The fourth focuses on post-workshop group activities including the development of plans for implementation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.