1. Why Objective Science Does Not Resolve Environmental Policy Issues.
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Herrick, Charles
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL risk , *ENVIRONMENTAL health , *SOCIAL surveys , *CARBON dioxide mitigation , *SCIENTIFIC method , *SCIENTIFIC literature - Abstract
Policy vehicles such as the 2001 Data Quality Act and the Trump Administration "Transparency" rule inappropriately conflate this simplistic model of science with the integrated multi-disciplinary assessments (see Figure 2) that are necessary to inform real-life environmental policy interventions.(Adapted from Helmenstine 2021, note 28.) PHOTO (COLOR): Figure 2. The Scientific Method: It is common to hear admonitions that policy must be informed by science; that policy actions must be "grounded" by an "adequate foundation" of objective science. The Role of Judgment in the Application of Science to Environmental Policy Questions: The EPA Weight of Evidence process provides a good, if somewhat generalized, depiction of how scientific methods and information are deployed in the context of environmental policy. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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