Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy: The Missing Prerequisite for Sound Decision Making

by Dorothy J. Howell

National institutions involved in environmental policy planning respond more to the accommodation of special interests, whether vested, parochial, or societal, than to the realities of technological advances. This situation, combined with the added problem of widespread scientific illiteracy, makes the formulation of effective environmental policy a very difficult task to accomplish.

Our politico-legal system and relationships among science,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899306160
• ISBN13: 9780899306162
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"