Interfaces Between Science and Society.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Communicating among plural perspectives -- 1 When communication fails: a study of failures of global systems -- 2 Science for sustainable development: articulating knowledges -- Part II: Managing uncertainty, complexity and value commitments -- 3 Reflexively dealing with uncertainty and complexity in policy-related knowledge: what can it mean? -- 4 Uncertainty, assumptions and value commitments in the knowledge base of complex environmental problems -- 5 Science for governance: the implications of the complexity revolution -- 6 Reflexivity and modesty in the application of complexity theory -- 7 Precaution as an invigorating context for scientific input in policy processes -- Part III: Knowledge assessment -- 8 Why knowledge assessment? -- 9 Deliberating foresight knowledge for policy and foresight knowledge assessment -- Part IV: Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes -- 10 Transparency, openness and participation in science policy processes -- 11 Interfaces between science and policy for environmental governance: lessons and open questions from the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy -- 12 Patents at the interfaces among science, society and the law -- 13 Evaluating public and stakeholder engagement strategies in environmental governance -- Part V: Community-based research -- 14 Community-based research -- 15 Science and society in place-based communities: uncomfortable partners -- 16 Science shops as science-society interfaces -- Part VI: Emerging styles of governance and new ICT -- 17 Building knowledge partnerships with ICT? Social and technological conditions of conviviality -- 18 CSLoTs: communication of science to non-scientific audiences. VGAS©: exploration of energy, lifestyles and climate.

19 Worldwide virtual network of practitioners working on science and society issues -- Abbreviations -- About the contributors -- Index.

As the world faces increasingly disparate challenges, science is being subjected to vehement demands from society calling for transparency, openness and public participation in science policy. This book provides a framework and a vision on how to conceive, discuss and evaluate the changes that occur in the relationship between science and society.

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