Science, Politics, and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making - Couverture rigide

 
9780792319979: Science, Politics, and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making
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ISBN 10 : 0792319974 ISBN 13 : 9780792319979
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality. Distinguished authors from different European countries and America provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on the problems of political decision making under the conditions of scientific uncertainty. cases from biotechnology and the environmental sciences are discussed.
The papers collected for this volume address the following themes: (i) controversies about risks and political decision making; (ii) concepts of science for policy; (iii) the use of social science in the policy making process; (iv) ethical problems with developments in science and technology; (v) public and state interests in the development and control of technology.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality. Distinguished authors from different European countries and America provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on the problems of political decision making under the conditions of scientific uncertainty. cases from biotechnology and the environmental sciences are discussed.
The papers collected for this volume address the following themes: (i) controversies about risks and political decision making; (ii) concepts of science for policy; (iii) the use of social science in the policy making process; (iv) ethical problems with developments in science and technology; (v) public and state interests in the development and control of technology.

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Éditeur
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0792319974
ISBN 13 
9780792319979
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
247
Éditeur
Von Schomberg R.
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