Group items tagged science - New England Workshop on Science and Social Change

shared by Jeremy Price on 29 Jun 08 - Cached

In environmental circles, uncertainty reigns supreme. Whereas science has traditionally been regarded as an authoritative tool for providing solutions to many knowledge-based problems, it has been less successful in the recent environmental context because of increasing competition from other interests.
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scientific findings are married with local knowledges, community surveys, leaked documents, and investigative journalism, breeding more confusion and less consensus. It doesn't matter how many scientists stand up and say that we should be really, really concerned about global warming or mercury poisoning or the loss of biodiversity, we're still not acting.
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If there is uncertainty in science, then scientists have an obligation to inform the public about these uncertainties when they influence their health, lives, and livelihoods.
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shared by Jeremy Price on 29 Jun 08 - Cached

It would appear we are a community of mostly like-minded people, who respect the scientific way of knowing, and exalt in the beauty and mystery of the world. We love questions more than answers, and distrust dogma wherever we find it, including, of course, in science.
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shared by Jeremy Price on 29 Jun 08 - Cached

Leach and her colleagues had shown how experts can reach wildly wrong conclusions if local knowledge and history are not taken into account.
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It promises to question the "assumption that the world is stable, predictable and knowable through a single form of knowledge that assumes one size fits all".
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Leach wants the centre to involve "citizens and decision-makers of all levels".
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"But we live in a world of dynamic change and uncertainty. We want to tackle these challenges head on, combining new theory with practical solutions that make science and technology work for the poor, and create sustainable environments from building on people's own knowledge. Economic growth is to be applauded, but one can't assume its benefits will trickle down to the poor."
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"We urgently need new, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing situations that combine an understanding of social, technological and environmental processes,"
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