Vaccine Anxieties

James Fairhead, Melissa Leach

• 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
• 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

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

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

Vaccine Anxieties

James Fairhead, Melissa Leach

• 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

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

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

Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when ... Lees meer

Reconstructing Sustainability Science

Thaddeus R Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of sustainability problems-from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and per... 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

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

Resolving Messy Policy Problems

Steven Ney

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• Our lives increasingly take place in ever more complex and interconnected networks that blur the boundaries we have traditionally used to define our s... 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

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

Rationality and Ritual

Brian Wynne

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• In Rationality and Ritual , internationally renowned expert Brian Wynne offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing... 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
• Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when ... Lees meer

Genomics and Society

• 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

Joint Fact-Finding in Urban Planning and Environmental Disputes

• Hardcover | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to official data are behind us. The credibility of experts and the information they provid... 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

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

Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change

Frank Sejersen

• Paperback | Engels | Earthscan Science in Society
• This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop sel... Lees meer