UID:
almahu_9948025839302882
Format:
1 online resource (299 pages)
ISBN:
0-12-809645-4
,
0-12-809642-X
Content:
The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence: Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology examines how toxicologists and environmental professionals come to understand and make decisions about possible harm from pollutants. Drawing on concepts and techniques from the natural, social and mathematical sciences, the book emphasizes how pollutant-related evidence is gathered, assessed, communicated and applied in decision-making.--
Note:
Section 1. Introduction -- The emerging importance of pollution -- Section 2: How individuals gather and judge evidence -- Human reasoning: everyday heuristics and foibles -- Human reasoning: within scientific traditions and rules -- Pathological reasoning within sciences -- Individual scientist: reasoning by the numbers -- Section 3: How groups weigh and apply evidence -- Social processing of evidence: commonplace dynamics and foibles -- How innovations enter and move within groups -- Evidence in social networks -- Section 4: Conclusion -- Conclusion.
Additional Edition:
ebook version : ISBN 9780128096451
Language:
English
