Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise: The UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1970-2011
- Submitting institution
-
University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 2052
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
-
-
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198294658
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book combines a depth of knowledge of an important area of government policy evolution, with a sustained interrogation of the politics of expertise, giving it considerable reach, backed by a wealth of evidence. It draws on extensive and complex primary resources and the author’s own sustained engagement with the politics of environmental expertise over several years. The book speaks to a broad audience - to social scientists about how knowledge is constructed and made authoritative, to natural scientists about how research becomes useful for instigating change, and also to practitioners about how knowledge is selected, transformed, and absorbed.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
