UID:
almafu_9960950824802883
Format:
1 online resource (385 p.)
ISBN:
0-262-29735-3
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1-283-32172-6
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9786613321725
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0-262-29827-9
Series Statement:
Politics, science, and the environment
Content:
This volume looks at the regulation of air pollution not as a static procedure of enactment and agreement but as a dynamic process that reflects the shifting interrelationships of science, policy, and citizens.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Contributors; Chapter 1. Transboundary Air Pollution Policy in Transition; Transboundary Pollution and Spatial Effects; Science, Policy, and Citizens; This Book: Science, Policy, and Citizens; References; Part I: Policy and Institutions; Chapter 2. The Improving Effectiveness of CLRTAP:Due to a Clever Design?; The Concept of Effectiveness: "Distance to Optimum" versus " Relative Improvement"; Explaining Effectiveness and the Focused Issue of Institutional Design: Five Key Features; CLRTAP: Steadily Improving Effectiveness Due to a Clever Design?
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Concluding CommentsNotes; References; Chapter 3. Institutional Linkages and European Air Pollution Politics; Analyzing Institutional Linkages; CLRTAP and EU Air Politics: The Shift toward Brussels; Institutional Linkages in European Air Pollution Abatement; Institutional Linkages and the Future of European Air Pollution Politics; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Transboundary Science for Transnational Air Pollution Policies in Europe; Designing Transnational Science-Policy Interfaces; The CLRTAP; The EU' s Air Pollution Policies; Comparison and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Notes; References
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Part II: Expertise and LearningChapter 5. Organized Science, Usable Knowledge, and Multilateral Environmental Governance; Knowledge, Sustainability Science, and the Social Construction of Consensus; Usable Knowledge: When Knowledge Speaks to Power; Empirical Record of Usable Knowledge in Multilateral Environmental Governance; Lessons for Generating and Mobilizing Usable Knowledge; Climate Change, Usable Knowledge, and the Limits to Social Learning; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References
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Chapter 6. Scientists Learn Not Only Science but Also Diplomacy: Learning Processes in the European Transboundary Air Pollution RegimeDeveloping an Alternative Conceptual Framework; The Case Study: Learning Assessments for the Second Sulfur Protocol; Examining the Learning Process; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 7. Fewer Boundaries and Less Certainty:The Role of Experts in European Air Policy; Successful Interplay between Science and Policy in Transboundary Air Pollution; Crisis in the Relationship between Science, Policy, and the Public: The STS Diagnosis
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Analyzing Air Policy Experts from the STS PerspectiveConclusions: Configuring the Science-Policy-Public Interplay; Note; References; Chapter 8. Co-producing Policy-Relevant Science and Science-Based Policy: The Case of Regulating Ground-Level Ozone; Science-Based Policy and Policy-Relevant Science; Representing Ground-Level Ozone; Scientific Developments and Political Considerations; Conclusion: Making Ground-Level Ozone Governable; Notes; References; Part III: Citizens and Involvement
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Chapter 9. Citizen Engagement with the Politics of Air Quality: Lessons for Social Theory, Science Studies, and Environmental Sociology
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-01650-8
Language:
English
