For scientists seeking to play a positive role in policy and politics and contribute to the sustainability of the scientific enterprise, scientists have choices in what role they play. This book is about understanding this choice. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy.

Author: Roger A. Jr. Pielke
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/19/2007
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780521694810


Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 05/29/2009 pg. 18

About the Author
Pielke Jr, Roger A.: - Roger A. Pielke, Jr. is Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2006 he was awarded the Eduard Brückner Prize for outstanding interdisciplinary research in climate work.