Environmental Expertise: Connecting Science, Policy and Society

ISBN-13: 9781107491670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Esther Turnhout; Willemijn Tuinstra; Willem Halffman

Opis

An overview of the important role that environmental experts play at the science-policy interface, and the complex challenges they face.

Recenzje

'The principal authors have done a very smart and novel job with this book, bringing together insights from environmental science, policy studies, science studies and the philosophy of science in a thoroughly practical way. The book should really help practitioners appreciate ways to handle the complexities of environmental policy-making in contexts of uncertainty, conflicting beliefs and competing societal values.' Steve Yearley, University of Edinburgh

Spis treści

List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: the plight of the environmental scientist Willem Halffman, Esther Turnhout and Willemijn Tuinstra; 2. What is science? (And why does this matter?) Willem Halffman; 3. Frames: beyond facts versus values Willem Halffman; Case A. Framing climate change Mike Hulme; 4. Science, politics and the public in knowledge controversies Esther Turnhout and Thomas Gieryn; Case B. What does 'climategate' tell us about public knowledge controversies? Silke Beck; Case C. Whose deficit anyway? Institutional misunderstanding of fracking sceptical publics Laurence Williams and Phil Macnaghten; 5. The limits to knowledge Willemijn Tuinstra, Ad Ragas and Willem Halffman; Case D. Angry bulbs Ad Ragas and Marga Jacobs; 6. Usable knowledge: science, policy and society Willemijn Tuinstra, Willem Halffman and Esther Turnhout; Case E. Expertise for European fisheries policy Willem Halffman and Martin Pastoors; 7. Interdisciplinarity and the challenge of knowledge integration Esther Turnhout; Case F. Knowledge integration in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Clark Miller; Case G. Integrated assessment for long-range transboundary air pollution Willemijn Tuinstra; 8. Lay expertise Esther Turnhout and Katja Neves; Case H. Lay expertise and botanical science: a case of dynamic interdependencies in biodiversity conservation Katja Neves; Case I. The Loweswater Care Project Claire Waterton; 9. Environmental Experts at the science-policy-society interface Esther Turnhout; Case J. Group Think and whistle blowers in CO2 capture and storage Heleen de Coninck; 10. Environmental knowledge in democracy Esther Turnhout, Willem Halffman and Willemijn Tuinstra; 11. Conclusion: science, reason and the environment Willem Halffman, Willemijn Tuinstra and Esther Turnhout; Inde