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Seeks to explain what "science" and "politics" are in the context of environmental policymaking and how the interplayof science and politics influences international environmental policy.
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Thinking about science and politics, Neil E. Harrison and Gary C. Bryner. Regional issues: preserving ecosystems in Mexico and the US, Rick Brusca and Gary C. Bryner; scientific uncertainty and scientists in EU policy processes - BSE and bovine hormones, M. Leann Brown. Global issues: science and international climate change policy, Marvin Soroos; political responses to changing uncertainty in climate change, Neil E. Harrison. Science and precaution: using science, ignoring science - acidification in Ontario, 1917-1991, Don Munton; lost in the woods - negotiating international forest management, rado Dimitrov. Science, ideas and culture: the localization of universal science and its impact on politics - acid rain science and politics in Europe, North America and East Asia, Kenneth E. Wilkening; the effectiveness of the UN Convention on the law of the sea in resolving international fisheries disputes - the Southern Bluefin Tuna Case, Jeremy M. Firestone and Tom Polachek; no fence can sto it - debating dioxin drift from a small US town to Arctic Canada, Michael S. Carolan and Michael M. Bell; international cooperation in environmental policy - ecosystem management of the Great Lakes and the Baltic sea, James Elfin. Beyond case studies; toward theory, Neil E. Harrison and Gary C. Bryner.
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