Science, Politics and Morality: Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making (1993) (Theory and Decision Library A: #17)
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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 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.
- Copyright:
- 1993
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789401581431
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780792319979
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands
- Date of Addition:
- 08/21/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Technology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- R. von Schomberg
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