Focuses on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives - accounts of the causes and appropriate responses to outbreaks - about epidemics at the global, national and local level. This book also reveals the often unintended consequences of policy responses to epidemics.
Focuses on how different policy-makers, scientists, and local populations construct alternative narratives - accounts of the causes and appropriate re...
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, and what can be done about it? How might we understand and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of...
Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become ce...
