A New Scientific Methodology for Global Environmental Issues

By Silvio Funtowicz, Jerome Ravetz. 1991

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2. Marc Mangel
3. Thomas Koetz
4. Inge Røpke
5. B. Haddad
6. K. Farrell
7. J. Petts
8. P. Bridgewater

Citations in the corpus

• Barriers to participation and deliberation in risk decisions: evidence from waste management (2004, background): “In such circumstances there is a need for extended peer communities, the input of different kinds of knowledge, and mechanisms that test the quality of expert and scientific approaches and arguments (Funtowitz and Ravetz, 1991; Petts, 1997).”
• Building better science-policy interfaces for international environmental governance: assessing potential within the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2012, background): “Here, international tensions are the rule rather than the exception, ‘facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent’ (Funtowicz and Ravetz 1991), and conventional wisdom for organising dialogue between science and policy-making is challenged in unprecedented ways (Farrell…”
• New foundations for ecological economics (2012, background): “…controlled laboratory, and physics, towards complex interactive global systems, and environmental problems, we need a different basis for creating knowledge which involves broad participation by the lay public, as an extended peer community (Funtowicz and Ravetz, 1991; Funtowicz and Ravetz, 1994).”
• Trends in the development of ecological economics from the late 1980s to the early 2000s (2005, background): “Accordingly, the first position papers of the field ( Costanza, 1989; Costanza et al., 1991) emphasized the seriousness of environmental problems based on the view that nature is the economy’s life-support system.”
• Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis and Sustainable Development (2005, unknown): “For the formation of contemporary public policies, it is hard to imagine any viable alternative to extended peer communities [18, 23, 30, 33, 34, 38, 47].”
• Social multi-criteria evaluation: Methodological foundations and operational consequences (2004, background): “For the formation of contemporary public policies, it is hard to imagine any viable alternative to extended peer communities (Corral-Quintana et al., 2001; De Marchi and Ravetz, 2001; Funtowicz and Ravetz, 1991, 1994; Funtowicz et al., 1999; Gowdy and OÕHara, 1996; Kasemir et al., 2003).”
• The Concept of Sustainable Development and its Use for Sustainability Scenarios (2009, unknown): “Rios Osorio et al. (2005) quote Funtowicz and Ravetz (1991; 1994) who proposed the concept of post-normal science , which represents a criticism to the epistemology of classical science, based on a reductionist concept of phenomenal reality and studied within the contexts of disciplines…”