The Earthscan Science in Society Series
About the Book Series
The Earthscan Science in Society Series aims to publish new high quality research, teaching, practical and policy- related books on topics that address the complex and vitally important interface between science and society.
Dynamics of Disaster: Lessons on Risk, Response and Recovery
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Allen, Rachel A. Dowty Beech
October 14, 2024
Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the organisational, national and international level. Effective disaster planning, response and recovery require an understanding of these interacting ...
Philanthropy and the Future of Science and Technology
1st Edition
By Evan Michelson
April 29, 2022
An increasingly important and often overlooked issue in science and technology policy is recognizing the role that philanthropies play in setting the direction of research. In an era where public and private resources for science are strained, the practices that foundations adopt to advance basic ...
Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: A New Approach to Climate Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Theresa Scavenius, Steve Rayner
July 16, 2019
In a period of rapid climate change and climate governance failures, it is crucial to understand and address how effectively different political institutions can and should react to climate change. The term 'institutional response capacity' can be defined as a measurement for how effective ...
Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority: Knowledge and action in liberal democracies
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Heazle, John Kane
April 16, 2019
Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the ...
Systems Thinking for Geoengineering Policy: How to reduce the threat of dangerous climate change by embracing uncertainty and failure
1st Edition
By Robert Chris
March 21, 2019
Even by the scientists most closely associated with it, geoengineering – the deliberate intervention in the climate at global scale to mitigate the effects of climate change – is perceived to be risky. For all its potential benefits, there are robust differences of opinion over the wisdom of such ...
Climate Adaptation Policy and Evidence: Understanding the Tensions between Politics and Expertise in Public Policy
1st Edition
By Peter Tangney
January 17, 2019
Evidence-based policymaking is often promoted within liberal democracies as the best means for government to balance political values with technical considerations. Under the evidence-based mandate, both experts and non-experts often assume that policy problems are sufficiently tractable and that ...
Geoengineering our Climate?: Ethics, Politics, and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Jason J. Blackstock, Sean Low
August 28, 2018
If the detrimental impacts of human-induced climate change continue to mount, technologies for geoengineering our climate – i.e. deliberate modifying of the Earth's climate system at a large scale – are likely to receive ever greater attention from countries and societies worldwide. ...
Aid, Technology and Development: The Lessons from Nepal
1st Edition
Edited
By Dipak Gyawali, Michael Thompson, Marco Verweij
June 28, 2018
Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This ...
Assessing the Societal Implications of Emerging Technologies: Anticipatory governance in practice
1st Edition
By Evan Michelson
December 21, 2017
A growing problem of interest in the field of science and technology policy is that the next generation of innovations is arriving at an accelerating rate, and the governance system is struggling to catch up. Current approaches and institutions for effective technology assessment are ill suited and...
Cities and the Knowledge Economy: Promise, Politics and Possibilities
1st Edition
By Tim May, Beth Perry
November 10, 2017
Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era. Through the lenses of promise, politics and possibility, it examines how the knowledge economy has ...
International Science and Technology Education: Exploring Culture, Economy and Social Perceptions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ortwin Renn, Nicole Karafyllis, Andreas Hohlt, Dorothea Taube
June 30, 2017
Education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is crucial for taking advantage of the prospects of new scientific discoveries initiating or promoting technological changes, and managing opportunities and risks associated with innovations. This book explores the emerging ...
Democratizing Technology: Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals
1st Edition
By Anne Chapman
November 24, 2016
Democratizing Technology provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the regulation of chemicals, and an important contribution to green thinking about technology.Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP. This book is an excellent critique of the current risk-based approach to technology. By exploring the ...