1st Edition
Citizen Science A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development
By Alan Irwin
Copyright 1995
212 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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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'... Read more
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
Biography
Irwin, Alan
