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' in environmental matters. In Citizen Science Alan Irwin provides a much needed route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat.

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In Citizen Science, Alan Irwin provides a much-needed and insightful route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat. A major contribution to our understanding of environmental sociology

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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
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Product details

ISBN
9780415130103
Published
1995-10-26
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd; Routledge
Weight
249 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
212

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