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.
Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change: New Northern Horizons
1st Edition
By Frank Sejersen
November 07, 2016
This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland’s vision to boost extractive industries and transform society, the book examines how ...
Joint Fact-Finding in Urban Planning and Environmental Disputes
1st Edition
Edited
By Masahiro Matsuura, Todd Schenk
September 29, 2016
The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to official data are behind us. The credibility of experts and the information they provide are regularly challenged; officials are routinely provided with conflicting sets of facts as they plan and make decisions; and decision makers and ...
Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society
1st Edition
By Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
August 31, 2016
This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological ...
Experiment Earth: Responsible innovation in geoengineering
1st Edition
By Jack Stilgoe
May 10, 2016
Experiments in geoengineering – intentionally manipulating the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming – have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the world’s first major ...
Uncertainty in Policy Making: Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions
1st Edition
By Michael Heazle
January 20, 2016
Uncertainty in Policy Making explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. It argues that conventional notions of rational, evidence-based policy making - hailed by governments and organisations across the world as the only way to make good policy - is ...
Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies
1st Edition
By Richard Twine
June 23, 2015
In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in ...
Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock
June 23, 2015
Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also ...
Reconstructing Sustainability Science: Knowledge and action for a sustainable future
1st Edition
By Thaddeus Miller
December 08, 2014
The growing urgency, complexity and "wickedness" of sustainability problems—from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and inequality—present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge production and its use. While there is little doubt that ...
A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance of Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Rappert, Caitriona McLeish
September 11, 2014
Web of Prevention provides a timely contribution to the current debate about life science research and its implications for security. It is an informative guide for both experts and the public. It is a forward-looking contribution covering both ends of the equation and creates momentum for the ...
The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Rayner, Mark Caine
September 06, 2014
The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy presents a powerful critique of mainstream climate change policies and details a set of pragmatic alternatives based on the Hartwell Group’s collective writings from 1988-2010. Drawing on a rich history of heterodox but increasingly accepted views on climate ...
Unnatural Selection: The Challenges of Engineering Tomorrow's People
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Healey, Steve Rayner
August 12, 2014
With ever-advancing scientific understanding and technological capabilities, humanity stands on the brink of the potential next stage of evolution: evolution engineered by us. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science offer the possibility to enhance human ...
Marginalized Reproduction: Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorraine Culley, Nicky Hudson, Floor van Rooij
December 11, 2013
Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despite greater levels of infertility and strong cultural meanings attached to having children, little ...