Interfaces between science and society
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The project of science has been to provide answers to questions about the world and how it works. Often, this lofty role has been characterised by a narrow and dogmatic scientific training, an unwillingness to communicate to differing stakeholder needs, a refusal to accept and to manage uncertainty, complexity and value commitments, and the reduction of knowledge assessment to colleague peer review on narrowly technical issues. Times have changed. As the world faces increasingly disparate chall…
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- Full title :Interfaces between science and society / edited by Angela Guimarães Pereira, Sofia Guedes Vaz and Sylvia Tognetti.
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The project of science has been to provide answers to questions about the world and how it works. Often, this lofty role has been characterised by a narrow and dogmatic scientific training, an unwillingness to communicate to differing stakeholder needs, a refusal to accept and to manage uncertainty, complexity and value commitments, and the reduction of knowledge assessment to colleague peer review on narrowly technical issues. Times have changed. As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is subjected to increasingly vehement demands from a society calling for transparency, openness and public participation in science policy. Science is going through an evolutionary process. Perhaps the most painful process it has ever encountered. Research on the interfaces between science and society is a burgeoning area. This book provides much-needed reflections on the methods and tools for knowledge quality assurance, particularly on its inputs to extended policy and decision-making processes.
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- Publication Date:2006.
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- Publisher(s):Greenleaf Pub
- Place of Publication:Sheffield [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
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- Description:Online-Ressource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1874719977, 9781874719977
- oclc:ocn870325312
- LC Classification:Q223
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Communicating among plural perspectives -- pt. 2. Managing uncertainty, complexity and value commitments -- pt. 3. Knowledge assessment -- pt. 4. Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes -- pt. 5. Community-based research -- pt. 6. Emerging styles of governance and new ICT.
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