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Title Interfaces between science and society / edited by Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Sofia Guedes Vaz and Sylvia Tognetti
Published Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. When communication fails : a study of failures of global systems / Jerome Ravetz -- 2. Science for sustainable development : articulating knowledges / Gilberto Gallopin and Hebe Vessuri -- 3. Reflexively dealing with uncertainty and complexity in policy-related knowledge : what can it mean? / Matthieu Craye -- 4. Uncertainty, assumptions and value commitments in the knowledge base of complex environmental problems / Jeroen Van der Sluijs -- 5. Science for governance : the implications of the complexity revolution / Mario Giampietro, Tim Allen and Kozo Mayumi -- 6. Reflexivity and modesty in the application of complexity theory / Roger Strand and Silvia Canellas-Bolta -- 7. Precaution as an invigorating context for scientific input in policy processes / Cato C. ten Hallers-Tjabbes, David Gee and Sofia Guedes Vaz -- 8. Why knowledge assessment? / Silvio Funtowicz -- 9. Deliberating foresight knowledge for policy and foresight knowledge assessment / Rene von Schomberg, Angela Guimaraes Pereira and Silvio Funtowicz -- 10. Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes / Maria Eduardo Goncalves -- 11. Interfaces between science and policy for environmental governance : lessons and open questions from the European platform for biodiversity research strategy / Sybille van den Hove and Martin Sharman -- 12. Patents at the interfaces among science, society and the law / Emanuela Gambini -- 13. Evaluating public and stakeholder engagement strategies in environmental governance / Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark -- 14. Community-based research / Jennifer A. Bellamy -- 15. Science and society in place-based communities : uncomfortable partners / David Waltner-Toews, Ligia Noronha and Dean Bavington -- 16. Science shops as science-society interfaces / Henk A.J. Mulder, Michael S. Jorgensen, Laura Pricape, Norbert Steinhaus and Anke Valentin -- 17. Building knowledge partnerships with ICT? : social and technological conditions of conviviality / Martin O'Connor -- 18. CSLoTs : communication of science to non-scientific audiences, VGAS : exploration of energy, lifestyles and climate / Tiago de Sousa Pedrosa and Angelo Guimaraes Pereira -- 19. Worldwide virtual network of practitioners working on science and society issues / Merce Aguera Cabo and Angela Guimaraes Pereira
Summary As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is being subjected to vehement demands from society calling for transparency, openness and public participation in science policy. This book provides a framework and a vision on how to conceive, discuss and evaluate the changes that occur in the relationship between science and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Science -- Social aspects
Computer systems.
Physical sciences.
Public relations.
Social control.
Organization.
Sociology.
Social sciences.
Health services administration.
Medical care.
Research.
Science.
Computer networks.
Social Control Policies
Computer Systems
Natural Science Disciplines
Public Relations
Policy
Disciplines and Occupations
Social Control, Formal
Organization and Administration
Computing Methodologies
Sociology
Social Sciences
Health Services Administration
Information Science
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Delivery of Health Care
Research
Public Policy
Science
Community-Institutional Relations
Computer Communication Networks
Patient Care
physical sciences.
public relations.
sociology.
social sciences.
research (function)
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Sciences.
Société.
Sociology
Social sciences
Social control
Science
Research
Public relations
Physical sciences
Organization
Medical care
Health services administration
Computer systems
Computer networks
Science -- Social aspects
Gesellschaft
Wissenschaft
Form Electronic book
Author Pereira, Ângela Guimarães.
Vaz, Sofia Guedes.
Tognetti, Sylvia S.
ISBN 9781909493674
1909493678
1351280430
9781351280433