The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics - Hardcover

Pielke Jr, Roger A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521873207 ISBN 13: 9780521873208

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

For scientists seeking to play a positive role in policy and politics and contribute to the sustainability of the scientific enterprise, scientists have choices in what role they play. This book is about understanding this choice. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy.

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Book Description

Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy by identifying and explaining the distinctive choices facing scientists about how their work is to be used.

About the Author

Roger A. Pielke, Jr. is Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2006 he was awarded the Eduard Brückner Prize for outstanding interdisciplinary research in climate work.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521873207
• ISBN 13: 9780521873208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 198