Science, Politics and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making: 17 (Theory and Decision Library A:, 17) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792319974 ISBN 13: 9780792319979

Publisher: Springer, 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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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: controversies about risks and political decision making; concepts of science for policy; the use of social science in the policy making process; ethical problems with developments in science and technology; public and state interests in the development and control of technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792319974
• ISBN 13: 9780792319979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 247
• Editor: Von Schomberg R.