{"id":868,"date":"2014-04-02T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-04-24T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:30:33","slug":"scientists-eager-to-participate-in-public-discourse-on-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/scientists-eager-to-participate-in-public-discourse-on-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists eager to participate in public discourse on environment<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are willing to take part in public discourse on environment, but they often perceive themselves as not competent enough, a new study says. A survey of 500 researchers have shown that 98 per cent said they would be willing to advocate for a policy if they felt there was sufficient scientific evidence to support their position.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esajournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1890\/130011\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal\u00a0<em>Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>April 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/chanslab.ires.ubc.ca\/people\/singh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald G Singh<\/a>, University of British Columbia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are willing to take part in public discourse on environment, but they often perceive themselves as not competent enough, a new study says. A survey of 500 researchers have shown that 98 per cent said they would be willing to advocate for a policy if they felt there was sufficient scientific evidence to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-e0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}