Knowledge and Environmental Policy ─ Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics
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系列名:American and Comparative Environmental Policy
ISBN13:9780262514378
出版社:Mit Pr
作者:William Ascher; Toddi A. Steelman; Robert G. Healy
出版日:2010/07/16
裝訂/頁數:平裝/280頁
規格:22.9cm*15.2cm*1.3cm (高/寬/厚)
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During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scientists were censored. The Obama administration has pledged to restore science to the policymaking process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policy point out, the problems in connecting scientific discovery to science-based policy are systemic. The process---currently structured in a futile effort to separate policy from science---is dysfunctional in many respects. William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, and Robert Healy analyze the dysfunction and offer recommendations for incorporating formal science and other important types of knowledge (including local knowledge and public sentiment) into the environmental policymaking process.
The authors divide the knowledge process into three functions---generation, transmission, and use---and explore the key obstacles to incorporating knowledge into the making of environmental policy. Using case studies and integrating a broad literature on science, politics, and policy, they examine the ignorance or distortion of policy-relevant knowledge, the overemphasis of particular concerns and the neglect of others, and the marginalization of certain voices. The book's analysis will be valuable to scientists who want to make their work more accessible and useful for environmental policy and to policymakers who want their decisions to be informed by science but have had difficulty finding scientific knowledge that is useful or timely.
"Governments, businesses, and civil society need more effective use of science, but science is often caught in a crossfire of interests. As the authors argue, effective governance lies in recognizing that scientists have interests---including an interest in rigorous, empirically grounded knowledge. Advancing that critical component of democracy requires innovations discussed in this rich volume." Kai N. Lee, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
"This book is a lucid, concise, yet comprehensive primer on how environmental science and policy interact in the governing process and how that interaction can be improved."
The authors divide the knowledge process into three functions---generation, transmission, and use---and explore the key obstacles to incorporating knowledge into the making of environmental policy. Using case studies and integrating a broad literature on science, politics, and policy, they examine the ignorance or distortion of policy-relevant knowledge, the overemphasis of particular concerns and the neglect of others, and the marginalization of certain voices. The book's analysis will be valuable to scientists who want to make their work more accessible and useful for environmental policy and to policymakers who want their decisions to be informed by science but have had difficulty finding scientific knowledge that is useful or timely.
"Governments, businesses, and civil society need more effective use of science, but science is often caught in a crossfire of interests. As the authors argue, effective governance lies in recognizing that scientists have interests---including an interest in rigorous, empirically grounded knowledge. Advancing that critical component of democracy requires innovations discussed in this rich volume." Kai N. Lee, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
"This book is a lucid, concise, yet comprehensive primer on how environmental science and policy interact in the governing process and how that interaction can be improved."
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William Ascher is Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College. Toddi Steelman is Associate Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Policy in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. Robert Healy is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.
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