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

by Toddi Steelman, Robert Healy, William L. Ascher

Book Overview

An analysis of the challenges involved in incorporating science and other kinds of knowledge into making environmental policy.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262514370
• ISBN13: 9780262514378
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher