Vaccine Anxieties

Melissa Leach, James Fairhead

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal t... Lees meer

Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• The term "institutional response capacity" is a measurement for how effective political institutions may respond to threats and challenges such as cli... Lees meer

Dynamics of Disaster

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the... Lees meer

Vaccine Anxieties

Melissa Leach, James Fairhead

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal t... Lees meer

The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy presents a powerful critique of mainstream climate change policies and details a set of pragmatic alternatives... Lees meer

Uncertainty in Policy Making

Michael Heazle

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Uncertainty in Policy Making explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. It argues that conventional n... Lees meer

A Web of Prevention

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• A Web of Prevention provides a timely contribution to the current debate about life science research and its implications for security. It is an infor... Lees meer

Animals as Biotechnology

Richard Twine

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change ... Lees meer

International Science and Technology Education

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• This book explores the emerging perspectives and methodologies of STEM education and its relationship to cultural understanding of science and technol... Lees meer

Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies. It aims to ... Lees meer

Reconstructing Sustainability Science

Thaddeus Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Sustainability science is an interdisciplinary, problem-driven field that seeks to address fundamental questions on human-environment interactions. Th... Lees meer

Business Planning for Turbulent Times

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the implosion of financial... Lees meer

Experiment Earth

Jack Stilgoe

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Experiments in geoengineering - intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate to reduce global warming - have become the focus of a vital debate abou... Lees meer

Unnatural Selection

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• With ever-advancing scientific understanding and technological capabilities, humanity stands on the brink of the potential next stage of evolution: ev... Lees meer

Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence

Peter Tangney

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical c... Lees meer

Influenza and Public Health

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close successi... Lees meer

Cities and the Knowledge Economy

Tim May, Beth Perry

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge an... Lees meer

Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies. Lees meer

Joint Fact-Finding in Urban Planning and Environmental Disputes

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• This book examines how groups looking to plan and make decisions in any number of areas wade through the imperfect and often contradictory information... Lees meer

Genomics and Society

Martin W Bauer

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• From the mid 1990s to the present day, agricultural biotechnology - GM crops and foods - has been the focus of debate and conflict in many European co... Lees meer

Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political insti... Lees meer

The Limits to Scarcity

Lyla Mehta

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for soc... Lees meer

Integrating Science and Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual d... Lees meer

Philanthropy and the Future of Science and Technology

Evan S Michelson

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Philanthropy and the Future of Science and Technology surveys the landscape of contemporary philanthropic involvement in science and technology by com... Lees meer