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Similarly to CAMAR-DSS ( CAMARInEnglish ), SEAMLESS-IF ( www.seamless-ip.org/SEAMLESS-IF.htm) was designed with a set of procedures and computer tools supplied by scientists, which can provide ‘information’ to policy makers, in order to facilitate the assessment of likely short term impacts of a suggested policy, and the exploration of alternative strategies for achieving longer-term goals through influencing land management decisions.

The SEAMLESS-IF impact assessment procedures can be viewed as applications of a specific technology – encapsulation of specific enquiry methods (simulation models) and data – for the acquisition of new knowledge. When searching for the domain of intersection between science and policy, we shall first look at the SEAMLESS-IF impact assessment procedure (technology) and then the outputs of the procedures (new knowledge).

 EUPolicies:ExpertsViews provides you with an attempt to contribute to the development of impact analysis methods that integrate experts views on social aspects related to landscapes and results of a policy impacts simulation model so called SEAMLESS-IF.

 ScienceAndPolitics provides you with some thoughts on ways and difficulties to make a policy impacts assessment tool -- SEAMLESS-IF -- a science - policy interface to be used to provide policy-makers with usefull information about the likely impacts of a given specific policy option.