Allan Mazur

Technical Controversies over Public Policy

From Fluoridation to Fracking and Climate Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Newspapers and TV often report controversial risk warnings over technological innovations, scientific developments, or environmental hazards that have at their core a dispute between experts who contradict one another not only on preferred policy but also on the scientific facts that underlie decisions about public policy. This book cuts through the politics and ideology of these debates and gets to the heart of the issue: evaluating the true degree of danger.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781138103405
• ISBN-10: 1138103403
• Artikelnr.: 49085570

Autorenporträt

Allan Mazur is Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Preliminaries
1. The Controversy over Climate Change
2. Technical Controversies May Be Good, If They End Well
Part II. The Age of Heroic Engineering and the Age of Technical Controversy
3. The Age of Heroic Engineering
4. The Age of Technical Controversy
Part III. Facts in Dispute
5. Disputes Between Experts
6. Separating Disputes over Facts from Disputes over Values
Part IV. Participants
7. Partisans
8. Beliefs
9. Social Links among Controversies
Part V. Protest Movements
10. Growth of Protest
11. Mass Media: Quantity of Coverage Theory
12. The Fracking Controversy
13. Seriously Science-Driven Policy
References