REACH DECISIONMAKING

Depending on your issue, you might need to reach decisionmakers, influencers, and supporters. 

A study that examines how REACH could be devised or implemented to promote innovation in the chemical sector is lacking. Decisionmaking under REACH will need to address this lack of company-and sector-specific business impact assessment data. In particular, regulators will need to account for the distribution of business management risk between companies, across sectors and through supply chains. Otherwise the financial and management hurdles... 

The decision to adopt a participatory approach in our research reflected the premise that the responsibility of environmental scientists is to provide reliable Information that will help society resolve its environmental problems. While the premise may be laudatory, it is slippery to apply. For example, the typical means of supplying new information to society takes the form of scientific papers published in English in international journals (e.g. Brown et al. 1992, Kainer et al. 1998). In Brazilian Amazonia, we have found, however, that information in this format does not easily reach the local and regional decisionmakers, few of whom read English or have effective access to scientific literature. Also, those who have the most at stake, the local communities, require a different mode of information transfer. 

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