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Knowledge and Environmental Policy Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics

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ISBN-10: 0262514370

ISBN-13: 9780262514378

Edition: 2010

Authors: William Ascher, Toddi A. Steelman, Robert G. Healy

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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 policy making process. And yet, as the authors of Knowledge and Environmental Policypoint 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…    
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Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Ronald D. Brunner is a policy scientist and professor at the University of Colorado; Toddi A. Steelman is associate professor of environmental and natural resource policy at North Carolina State University; Lindy Coe-Juell is a policy analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Los Angeles; Christina M. Cromley is a policy analyst with the GAO in Washington, D. C.; Christine M. Edwards is the alumni coordinator for the School for Field Studies in Salem, Massachusetts; Donna W. Tucker is a doctoral student in environmental studies at the University of Colorado.

Series Foreword
Preface
Knowledge in the Environmental Policy Process
The Generation of Policy-Relevant Environmental Knowledge
The Transmission and Use of Knowledge in the Environmental Policy Process
How Knowledge Shapes the Environmental Policy Process
The "Ecology" of Knowledge and the Environmental Policy Process
The Consequences of Knowledge Problems in the Environmental Policy Process
Insights and Recommendations
Notes
References
Index