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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
by Jason Scott Johnston
PART I. Institutions for Climate Science Assessment
Chapter 2: The Cost of Cartelization: The IPCC Process and the Crisis of Credibility in Climate Science
by Jason Scott Johnson
Chapter 3: Adversarial versus consensus Processes for assessing scientific evidence: Should the IPCC operate more like a courtroom?
by Ross McKitrick
Part II. Taxonomy and Endangered Species Regulation
Chapter 4: On The Origin Of Specious Species
by Rob Roy Ramey II
Chapter 5: Politics and Science in Endangered Species
by Katrina Miriam Wyman
Part III. Reforming the Role of Science in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation
Chapter 6: Reconciling the Scientific & Regulatory Timetables
by James W. Conrad, Jr.
Chapter 7: Improving the Use of Science to Inform Environmental Regulation
by Susan E. Dudley & George M. Gray
Chapter 8: A Return to Expertise?: A Proposal for an Institute of Scientific Assessments
by Gary E. Marchant
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Edited by Jason Scott Johnston - Contributions by James W. Conrad Jr.; Susan Dudley; George M. Gray; Gary Marchant; Ross McKitrick; Rob Roy Ramey II and Katrina Wyman
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.
