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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

These weekly notes are designed as questions on the weekly topic, to which the students must write their response papers.

LEC #TOPICS
Part I: What is Science?
1Introduction to the Course (PDF)
2The Policy Process and the Political Debate Over "Sound Science" (PDF)
3The Scientific Method and the Production of Scientific Knowledge (PDF)
4Environmental (Regulatory) Science, Experts, and Expertise (PDF)
Part II: How is Science Filtered Through the Policy Process?
5Environmental Advocacy: Using Science to Define Problems (PDF)
6Media Coverage of Science and Environmental Risk (PDF)
7The Public's Perception of Science and Environmental Risk (PDF)
8Science in Legislative Decision Making (PDF)
9Science in Administrative and Judicial Decision Making (PDF)
10Science in the International Arena (PDF)
11Advocacy Science vs. Collaborative Science (PDF)
12Local Knowledge (PDF)
13Uncertainty, Adaptive Management and the Precautionary Principle (PDF)

 








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