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Book SynopsisInstitutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional health-based environmental regulation.
Trade ReviewInstitutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science is essential reading for people interested in how institutions affect regulatory agencies’ abilities to make decisions based on objective interpretations of scientific evidence of risks to health, safety or the environment. -- Randall Lutter, Resources for the Future
A powerful and disturbing account of the biases and uncertainties in regulatory science. Fortunately, the authors offer promising reforms to buttress the integrity of science in the midst of the politics of rulemaking. -- John D. Graham, Dean, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Provocative and timely, Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science raises crucial questions for anyone interested in science and public policy. In the abstract, everyone agrees that legitimate policy making depends on both credible science as well as on political and moral judgment. But in practice, as the cases in this book engagingly show, the challenge lies in discerning the appropriate roles for science and politics—and then keeping each in their respective places. Few challenges are more central to contemporary regulatory policy over matters as varied as climate change, biodiversity, and toxic pollution. -- Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction by Jason Scott Johnston PART I. Institutions for Climate Science Assessment Chapter 2: The Cost of Cartelization: The IPCC Process and the Crisis of Credibility in Climate Science by Jason Scott Johnson Chapter 3: Adversarial versus consensus Processes for assessing scientific evidence: Should the IPCC operate more like a courtroom? by Ross McKitrick Part II. Taxonomy and Endangered Species Regulation Chapter 4: On The Origin Of Specious Species by Rob Roy Ramey II Chapter 5: Politics and Science in Endangered Species by Katrina Miriam Wyman Part III. Reforming the Role of Science in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation Chapter 6: Reconciling the Scientific & Regulatory Timetables by James W. Conrad, Jr. Chapter 7: Improving the Use of Science to Inform Environmental Regulation by Susan E. Dudley & George M. Gray Chapter 8: A Return to Expertise?: A Proposal for an Institute of Scientific Assessments by Gary E. Marchant
