Citizen Science - A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development

Informationen zum Autor Irwin, Alan Klappentext We are all concerned by the environmental threats facing us today. Environmental issues are a major area of concern for policy makers, industrialists and public groups of many different kinds. While science seems central to our understanding of such threats, the statements of scientists are increasingly open to challenge in this area. Meanwhile, citizens may find themselves labelled as ignorant' in environmental matters. In Citizen Science Alan Irwin provides a much needed route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat. Zusammenfassung In Citizen Science, Alan Irwin provides a much-needed and insightful route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat. A major contribution to our understanding of environmental sociology Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Science and Citizenship 3. Science, Citizenship and Environmental Threat 4. Witnesses, Participants and Major Accident Hazards 5. Freeing the Voices: A Science of the People 6. Building Sustainable Futures: Science Shops and Social Experiments 7. Science, Citizenship and Troubled Modernity

Product details

• Authors: Alan Irwin, IRWIN ALAN
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.1995
• EAN: 9780415115483
• ISBN: 978-0-415-11548-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New International Relations; New International Relations; Environment and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Umweltwissenschaften, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Politische Bildung und Zivilgesellschaft, Umweltwissenschaften, Umwelttechnik