A5016024177- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- European Political History Analysis
- Risk Perception and Management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Medical History and Innovations
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Medical History and Research
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Philosophy, Science, and History
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
University of Edinburgh
2011-2020
Edinburgh College
2020
ORCID
2020
Edinburgh Genomics
2009-2014
University of York
1981-2005
York University
1998
National University of Ireland
1990-1995
Queen's University Belfast
1984-1994
University of Ulster
1992-1994
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced developed a "sociotechnical" perspective that been taken up by many disciplines areas inquiry. aims objectives this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS useful at better understanding energy-related social science, reflect on prominent themes topics within those approaches, identify current research gaps directions for the future. To do so, builds companion project, systematic...
The campaign to ban seal hunting in Canada won international headlines and achieved its aims a large extent. Most observers felt instinctively that the campaigners were .right. but little thought was given cataclysmic consequences would have on way of life economy traditional people, Inuit Arctic Canada. A distinguished anthropologist who has spent over twenty years living working with Community, George Wenzel provides reasoned, in-depth, coolly written powerful critique this received...
Several recent strands of work within science studies, risk analysis, the public understanding science, and environmental policy analysis have focused on significance lay knowledge expertise. In case after case, it has been suggested that “expert” accounts physical reality conflicted with local people's rather than being routinely inferior defective, commonly proven more sensitive to “realities.” These cases become favored sites for studying discontents expert knowledge. Though primary style...
This article focuses on the comparatively neglected role of social sciences (including economics) and assumptions about functioning scientific community in projections climate change societies' responses to changing climates related environmental phenomena. Using an approach informed by constructionism science technology studies, it examines part played institutions making knowledge future humankind relation ecosphere. a small series case studies focused way that features shaping — for...
In studies of environmental issues, the question how to establish a productive interplay between science and policy is widely debated, especially in relation climate change. The aim this article advance discussion contribute better understanding summarized for purposes by bringing together two academic discussions that usually take place parallel: deal with formalization (structuring procedures assessing summarizing research, e.g. protocols) separation (maintaining boundary processes...
Journal Article New Reproductive Technologies Get access Human Reproduction, Volume 9, Issue suppl_3, 1 July 1994, Page 14, https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/9.suppl_3.14-a Published: 01 1994
Unlike many social movements, the environmental movement has a profound dependence on scientific evidence and expertise. Without modern science no-one would know about ozone layer, much less well publicized « holes » in it. Yet, at same time, within green are distrustful of authority fruits technology. This paper examines way this incipient paradox affects analyses, through case-study material, practical implications movement's
This article assesses how science–policy interactions are conceptualized in the social sciences with special reference to climate change and IPCC. In terms of dimension distance (or proximity) between science policy, we discern two ideal-type cases: a 'two-worlds' 'one-world' perspective. The first understands policy as independent spheres separated by clear gap, while second perceives tightly coupled. These perspectives, presented here detail various sub-variants order show their...
First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role science and technology society. Steven Yearley draws on develops ideas from research sociology politics address, particular: nature scientific knowledge authority it commands; political economic West; relationship between science, technology, social change underdeveloped countries. Examples used range nineteenth-century brain strategic defence initiative, hugely expensive experiments...
1 Many ecologically based wildlife-habitat models provide only limited explanations of the observed data because they do not take account way in which key factors driving distribution interact with local management. If are to be credible tools for developing solutions wildlife management, need integrate scientific knowledge wealth held by those who manage these resources. 2 In this study, we develop a participatory approach from deer managers formal understanding and ecological spatial...
Many of the aspects science which touch public most deeply involve some degree modelling (for example, dispersion pollutants, predicted climate change or spread flood waters), yet explicit analyses in understanding tradition (PUS) have seldom examined computerized scientific models. However, models all sorts are increasingly run on computers, often raising new obstacles to and participation. The availability increasing computer power at declining cost makes possibility greater; recently, UK...