Environmental Expertise: Connecting Science, Policy and Society - Hardcover

Esther Turnhout , Willemijn Tuinstra , Willem Halffman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107098742 ISBN 13: 9781107098749

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Provides an overview of the important role that environmental experts play at the science-policy interface, and the complex challenges they face.

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About the Authors

Esther Turnhout is a Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group of Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands. Her research program, 'The Politics of Environmental Knowledge', includes research into the different roles experts play at the science-policy interface, the political implications of policy-relevant environmental knowledge and the interaction between science, society and citizens.

Willemijn Tuinstra works as an independent advisor on knowledge development for environmental policy. She advises research institutes and civil servants on procedural aspects of stakeholder participation, scenario development and dealing with uncertainties. She has been involved in projects for the European Environment Agency and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Willem Halffman is an associate professor in the Faculty of Science at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. His work focuses on studying how scientific knowledge is validated and how scientists advise public decision making. He has over twenty years' experience teaching science and society courses to natural scientists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107098742
• ISBN 13: 9781107098749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288