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Science and environmental decision making

Contributors

David Sumner
Editor

Abstract

Science is vital in informing the increasingly urgent and complex environmental decisions that affect all our lives, from international agreements on action to limit climate change to decisions on growing genetically modified crops. It is clear, however, that many environmental decisions are taken in the face of scientific uncertainty or ignorance, and involve questions of politics and ethics that go beyond science.

Science and Environmental Decision Making explores the use and limitations of science in helping to answer environmental questions, emphasising the importance of ethics, politics and sociology in the decision making process.

Citation

Huxham, M., & Sumner, D. (Eds.). (2000). Science and environmental decision making. Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)

Book Type Edited Book
Publication Date 2000
Deposit Date Nov 17, 2016
Publisher Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)
Edition 1st edition
Book Title Science and environmental decision making
ISBN 0582414466
Keywords GMO; Climate change; Pollution; Conservation; Genetic engineering
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/425279