Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development / Edition 1

by Alan Irwin

Overview

We are all concerned by the environmental threats facing us today. Environmental issues are a major area of concern for policy makers, industrialists and public groups of many different kinds. While science seems central to our understanding of such threats, the statements of scientists are increasingly open to challenge in this area. Meanwhile, citizens may find themselves labelled as ‘ignorant' in environmental matters. In Citizen Science Alan Irwin provides a much needed route through the fraught relationship between science, the public and the environmental threat.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415130103
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/26/1995
Series:	Environment and Society
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Irwin, Alan

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Science and Citizenship 3. Science, Citizenship and Environmental Threat 4. Witnesses, Participants and Major Accident Hazards 5. Freeing the Voices: A Science of the People 6. Building Sustainable Futures: Science Shops and Social Experiments 7. Science, Citizenship and Troubled Modernity

Editorial Reviews

Describes serial data highways developed for measurement and control applications, emphasizing the important of communications standards, which must conform to a protocol that ensures reliable transmissions between digital field devices using a common communications interface. Reviews the fundamental concepts and relative merits of 12 serial network communication standards, and surveys a wide range of market sectors where proprietary, national, and international standards now apply. For electronic and electrical engineers, product designers, and developers of communications standards. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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