Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy - The Missing Prerequisite for Sound Decision Making

National institutions involved in environmental policy planning respond more to the accommodation of special interests, whether vested, parochial, or societal, than to the realities of technological advances. This situation, combined with the added problem of widespread scientific illiteracy, makes the formulation of effective environmental policy a very difficult task to accomplish.

Our politico-legal system and relationships among science, scientists, and society are explored here with specific attention to issues arising from pharmaceutical innovation and biotechnology. The identification of the resultant dilemmas reveal disenfranchisement and point to possible means of reform. Howell focuses on the need for multilateral responsibility for communication to improve the accommodation of science in policy. A truly multidisciplinary study, this book is for environmental planners as well as the interested public.

Sommario

Introduction
The Setting
Prologue: Regulation in General
Policy Formulation at the Intersection of Law, Science and Technology
Implications for the Real World
Collisions and Implications for Societal Scientific Literacy
Revolution in Pharmaceutical Innovation and Evolving Policy
Regulation, Voices of the Public, and Pharmaceutical Innovation: Implications of Delays in FDA Approval of New Drugs
Regulation, Voices of the Public, and Pharmaceutical Innovation: The Quandary Goes On
Regulation, Voices of the Public, and Products of Recombinant DNA: Science and Technologies
Regulation, Voices of the Public, and Products of Recombinant DNA: The Intersection with Policy and Law
At the Intersection: Disenfranchisement and Reenfranchisement
At the Intersection: Merge, or Collision?
Can We Reenfranchise Society for the Intersection?
Epilogue: "Future History"
Selected Bibliography
Index

Info autore

DOROTHY J. HOWELL is Adjunct Professor at the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School and a participant in environmental programs since 1969. She teaches a seminar in the multidisciplinary aspects of environmental planning, as well as courses in environmental sciences and toxics law.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dorothy J. Howell, Howell Dorothy J.
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 06.04.1992
• EAN: 9780899306162
• ISBN: 978-0-89930-616-2
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Scienze naturali; USA, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Property, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Conservation of the environment, Central / national / federal government policies, Environment law, Property law: general, Central government policies, property law, Current Events and Issues: Business