Book contents
- Environmental Expertise
- Reviews
- Environmental Expertise
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is Science? (And Why Does This Matter?)
- 3 Frames: Beyond Facts Versus Values
- Case A Framing Climate Change
- 4 Science, Politics, and the Public in Knowledge Controversies
- Case B What Does ‘Climategate’ Tell Us About Public Knowledge Controversies
- Case C Whose Deficit Anyway? Institutional Misunderstanding of Fracking-Sceptical Publics
- 5 The Limits to Knowledge
- Case D Angry Bulbs
- 6 Usable Knowledge
- Case E Expertise for European Fisheries Policy
- 7 Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Knowledge Integration
- Case F Knowledge Integration in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Case G Integrated Assessment for Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- 8 Lay Expertise
- Case H Lay Expertise and Botanical Science
- Case I The Loweswater Care Project
- 9 Environmental Experts at the Science–Policy–Society Interface
- Case J Groupthink and Whistle Blowers in CO2 Capture and Storage
- 10 Environmental Knowledge in Democracy
- 11 Conclusion
- Index
- References
10 - Environmental Knowledge in Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2019
Book contents
- Environmental Expertise
- Reviews
- Environmental Expertise
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 What Is Science? (And Why Does This Matter?)
- 3 Frames: Beyond Facts Versus Values
- Case A Framing Climate Change
- 4 Science, Politics, and the Public in Knowledge Controversies
- Case B What Does ‘Climategate’ Tell Us About Public Knowledge Controversies
- Case C Whose Deficit Anyway? Institutional Misunderstanding of Fracking-Sceptical Publics
- 5 The Limits to Knowledge
- Case D Angry Bulbs
- 6 Usable Knowledge
- Case E Expertise for European Fisheries Policy
- 7 Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Knowledge Integration
- Case F Knowledge Integration in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Case G Integrated Assessment for Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- 8 Lay Expertise
- Case H Lay Expertise and Botanical Science
- Case I The Loweswater Care Project
- 9 Environmental Experts at the Science–Policy–Society Interface
- Case J Groupthink and Whistle Blowers in CO2 Capture and Storage
- 10 Environmental Knowledge in Democracy
- 11 Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
The position of science is shifting. While in the old conception, science was considered to be outside of policy and society, engagement and participation are increasingly valued in science and knowledge production. Yet, at the same time we also see a parallel trend in which the authority of science is increasingly being questioned. In the context of these developments and trends, it is urgent to reconsider the relation between science, policy, and society. This chapter considers this relation from the perspective of democracy. Such a perspective highlights the importance of thinking about the position and role of science not just in instrumental terms, for example as in improving the uptake of knowledge or organising efficient science–policy–society interfaces, but also in terms of legitimacy and associated democratic values. The chapter will discuss three such democratic values – accountability, diversity and contestation, and humility – to serve as guidance for strengthening the contribution of environmental knowledge to policy and society.
Information
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Environmental ExpertiseConnecting Science, Policy and Society, pp. 247 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
References
Borges, J. L. (1975). Of Exactitude in Science. In A Universal History of Infamy (p. 131) London: Penguin Books.Google Scholar
Brown, M. (2009). Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation. Cambridge: The MIT Press.Google Scholar
Chilvers, J., and Kearnes, M., eds. (2015). Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics. New York: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Jonge, J. (2016). Trust in Science in the Netherlands 2015. The Hague: Rathenau Institute.Google Scholar
Eco, U. (1994). On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1. In How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (pp. 95–106). New York: Harcourt.Google Scholar
Jasanoff, S. (2003). Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science. Minerva, 41, 223–244.Google Scholar
Ottinger, G. (2010). Buckets of Resistance: Standards and the Effectiveness of Citizen Science. Science, Technology and Human Values, 35, 244–270.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pellizzoni, L. (2001). The Myth of the Best Argument: Power, Deliberation and Reason. British Journal of Sociology, 52(1), 59–86.Google Scholar
Sarewitz, D. (2016). Saving Science. The New Atlantis, Spring/Summer, 5–40. www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-scienceGoogle Scholar
Stirling, A. (2015). Power, Truth and Progress: Towards Knowledge Democracies in Europe. In Wilsdon, J. and Doubleday, R., eds., Future Directions for Scientific Advice in Europe (pp. 135–153). Cambridge: Centre for Science and Policy.Google Scholar
Turnhout, E. (2018). The Politics of Environmental Knowledge. Accepted for publication by Conservation and Society.Google Scholar
Turnhout, E., van Bommel, S., and Aarts, N., (2010). How Participation Creates Citizens: Participatory Governance as Performative Practice. Ecology and Society, 15(4), 26.Google Scholar
Accessibility standard: Unknown
Why this information is here
This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.Accessibility Information
Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown
and may be updated in the future.