Week 14: 11-28-06

Science, Policy, and Politics

Discussion of S. Bocking, 2004. Nature's Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment, Rutger's University Press.

Sarewitz, D. 2004. How science makes environmental controversies worse, Environmental Science & Policy 7 (2004) 385-403.

Pielke, Jr., R.A., 2006. When Scientists Politicize Science, Regulation, Spring, pp. 28-34.

Recommended, but optional:
Hammond, K. R. and L. Adelman, 1976. Science, Values, and Human Judgment, Science, 194:389-396.

Sunstein.C. 2003. Beyond the Precautionary Principle, University of Pennsylvania Law Review 151:1003-1058.

If you have further interests in this subject:
Sarewitz, D. 1996. Frontiers of Illusion, Temple University Press.

Stokes, D. 1995. Pasteaur’s Quadrant, Brookings Institution.