Description
Book SynopsisSome critics describe science not as the solution to environmental problems, but as their source. Science itself is often a basis of controversy, as debates over global warming and environmental health risks show. This book explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs.
Trade ReviewWith clarity and grace, Stephen Bocking tackles the complicated question of the role of scientific expertise in environmental policy making. Nature's Experts is a timely and important book. -- David H. Guston * author of Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity *
If knowledge is power, how should expert advice be deployed by a would-be democratic society? This perennial question is newly illuminated by this timely and wide-ranging review of the role played by science in the making of environmental policy. -- William C. Clark * Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development, Harvard Univ *
This book by Stephen Bocking is as much about deliberative democracy as it is about science and the environment. Stephen Bocking's treatment is deep, perceptive and profoundly wise. He has caught the heart of present and future environmental science, politics and democratic governance. -- C.S. Holling * The Resilience Alliance and Emeritus Professor, Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in *
With clarity and grace, Stephen Bocking tackles the complicated question of the role of scientific expertise in environmental policy making. Nature's Experts is a timely and important book. -- David H. Guston * author of Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity *
Table of ContentsPreface
Part 1 Introduction
1 Encountering Science and Politics
2 The Uncertain Authority of Science
Part 2 Science and Politics in Environmental Affairs
3 Science and Environmental Values
4 Science and Natural Resources Management
5 Science and the Global Environmental
6 Science in a Risky World
Part 3 Seeking Effective and Democratic Science
7 Credible and Effective Science
8 Democratic Environmental Science
9 Achieving Effective and Democratic Science
Notes
References
Index
