Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy

This groundbreaking study of environmental assessment "provides an essential examination of the factors that shape and dictate our climate policy" (Choice).
Discerning Experts reexamines the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at reports involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how experts deliberate and decide on the scientific facts about problems like climate change. They als...