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Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: The Role of Scientists in the U.S. Acid Rain Debate - Couverture rigide

Alm, Leslie R.

 
9780275969165: Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: The Role of Scientists in the U.S. Acid Rain Debate
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275969169 ISBN 13 : 9780275969165
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Alm provides a descriptive analysis of the science-policy linkage that defined the policy debate over acid rain in the United States. He focuses on the role that science and scientists played in both defining the acid rain problem as one worthy of policy consideration and in framing the acid rain issue in a way that would prompt action to reduce pollution levels.

A major concern of Alm's study are the problems scientists have in connecting to the policy side of environmental debates. He provides in-depth exchanges from the floor of Congress between scientists and policy makers as they debated the merits of reducing acid rain pollution. These exchanges provide special insight into the difficulty that scientists have in communicating the findings of their research to policy makers and the public. In addition, he uses in-depth interviews with the acid-rain scientists themselves to delineate the way they perceive how science is and ought to be linked to the policy world. Finally, Alm looks at the different perspectives offered by United States scientists versus Canadian scientists and natural scientists versus social scientists, and he examines the importance and implications of these differences to the future of environmental policy making in the United States.

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À propos de l'auteur

LESLIE R. ALM is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boise State University. An expert on environmental policy making, his essays and articles have appeared in various books and journals, including Canadian-American Public Policy, The Journal of Environmental Systems, and Science, Technology, and Human Values.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275969169
ISBN 13 
9780275969165
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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