Tom Horlick-Jones, John Walls, Gene Rowe

The GM Debate

Risk, Politics and Public Engagement

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Produktbeschreibung

Giving a unique and systematic account of the debate process, this revealing volume sets the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of 'GM' crops in the UK within its political and intellectual contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780415393225
• ISBN-10: 0415393221
• Artikelnr.: 22593411

Autorenporträt

Tom Horlick-Jones is an independent researcher and consultant, currently based at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. He was team leader of the debate evaluation project. John Walls is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia. Gene Rowe is Head of Consumer Science at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich. Nick Pidgeon is Professor of Applied Psychology in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. Wouter Poortinga is an RCUK Academic Fellow in health and risk communication in the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University. Graham Murdock is Reader in the Sociology of Culture at Loughborough University. Tim O'Riordan is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Origins of the Debate 2. Our Approach to Evaluating the Debate 3.
The Unfolding of the Debate and the Implementation of the Evaluation
Exercise 4. Process Issues 5. The Issue of Representativeness 6.
Participants' Evaluation Criteria 7. The Management and Translation of
Knowledge 8. Other Representations of the Debate 9. Conclusions