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Institutions and incentives in regulatory science / edited by Jason Scott Johnston.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--United States.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental agencies--United States.
- Environmental agencies.
- Environmental protection--Standards--United States.
- Environmental protection.
- Environmental law--United States.
- Environmental law.
- Environmental sciences--Political aspects--United States.
- Environmental sciences.
- Science and state--United States.
- Science and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional health-based environmental regulation. The contributors in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the political or legal demand for regulatory action an
- Contents:
- Introduction / Jason Scott Johnston
- The cost of cartelization : the ipcc process and the crisis of credibility in climate science / Jason Scott Johnston
- Adversarial versus consensus processes for assessing scientific evidence : should the IPCC operate more like a courtroom? / Ross McKitrick
- On the origin of specious species / Rob Roy Ramey II
- Politics and science in endangered species / Katrina Miriam Wyman
- Reconciling the scientific & regulatory timetables / James W. Conrad, Jr
- Improving the use of science to inform environmental regulation / Susan E. Dudley and George M. Gray
- A return to expertise? : a proposal for an institute of scientific assessments / Gary E. Marchant.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-28455-0
- 1-280-66651-X
- 9786613643445
- 0-7391-6947-5
- OCLC:
- 845244592
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