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The Role of Science in Policy

其他書名	The Climate Change Debate in the United States
出版	MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 1999
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=maxQNwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Why is the U.S. finding it so difficult to agree on policies to address an ecological threat that, if it materializes, could have catastrophic consequences for itself and the rest of the world? Although much of the controversy surrounding global warming appears to revolve around scientific principles, political and economic forces actually dominate. This paper discusses the primary factors that determine policy outcomes (e.g., uncertainty, the structure of government, economic impacts, the media) and demonstrates how scientific knowledge interacts with the formulation of policy in the U.S.