Science and public policy: what's proof got to do with it?

By Naomi Oreskes. 2004

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Technical knowledge, discursive spaces and politics at the science - policy interface (2013, background): “…cannot be described in terms of clear boundaries between science and politics: the zones of engagement are fluid and vague the traffic between the institutional domains of politics and science is rather dense (Demeritt, 2001; Oreskes, 2004; Lövbrand, 2007; Huitema and Turnhout, 2009; Beck, 2011).”
Acting, predicting and intervening in a socio-hydrological world (2013, background): “First, it is well-established that science advances through a process of examination, revision and reexamination (Oreskes, 2004), a process in which scientific progress is most rapid when existing knowledge claims are no longer found to hold.”
How science makes environmental controversies worse (2004, background): “Oceanographers chose to interpret the uncertainty associated with the National Research Council study as an endorsement of the safety of ATOC.”
Theorising Transitional Pathways in Response to Climate Change: Technocentrism, Ecocentrism, and the Carbon Economy (2009, background): “…term by according greater status to the `knowable' (known technologies being implemented somewhere at an industrial scale) and the measurable (Oreskes, 2004), but leaves alternative possibilities, especially those entailing energy (as opposed to carbon) frugal behaviour, relocalisation, or…”
Maturing the New Water Management Paradigm: Progressing from Aspiration to Practice (2011, background): “Despite the acknowledgement of the existence of uncertainty and of the illusion of complete knowledge in environmental decision-making (see e.g. Bradshaw and Borchers 2000; Bergkamp et al. 2003; Oreskes 2004; Wardekker et al. 2008), the participants in the researched case studies pursue the ideal of”
Payments for Ecosystem Services: Rife With Problems and Potential—For Transformation Towards Sustainability (2017, background): “Efficiency may also impede equity when program designs unintentionally exacerbate barriers to participation for poorer landowners, including land tenure and requirements to hire foresters to complete applications (Pagiola, 2008; Anderson & Zerriffi, 2012).”
When scientists politicize science: making sense of controversy over The Skeptical Environmentalist (2004, background): “Oreskes, 2004; Sarewitz, 2004in this volume).”
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability (2020, background): “Clearly, policy action to address emerging threats is not a straightforward function of the quality of the evidence (Michaels, 2008; Oreskes, 2004).”