Book ID: CBB896612494

Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy (2019)

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Discerning Experts assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how experts deliberate and decide on the scientific facts about problems like climate change. They also seek to understand how the scientists involved make the judgments they do, how the organization and management of assessment activities affects those judgments, and how expertise is identified and constructed.  Discerning Experts uncovers factors that can generate systematic bias and error,  and  recommends how the process can be improved. As the first study of the internal workings of large environmental assessments, this book reveals their  strengths and weaknesses,  and explains what assessments can—and cannot—be expected to contribute to public policy and the common good.

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Review Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda (2020) Review of "Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 128-129). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alessandra Landi
Jeon, June
Carrie Sims
Waide, Robert
Sarah M. Hamylton
Giovanni Carrosio
Concepts
Climate change
Science and society
Environmental history
Environmental sciences
Environmental policy
Anthropocene
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
17th century
18th century
Places
United States
Australia
Venice (Italy)
Great Barrier Reef
South Carolina (U.S.)
Hawaii (U.S.)
Institutions
Australian Coral Reef Society (ACRS)
University of Melbourne
Human Genome Project
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