Author: Michael HeazlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uncertainty (Information theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A History of Scientific Uncertainty in the International Whaling Commission
Author: Michael HeazlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uncertainty (Information theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Scientific Uncertainty and the Politics of Whaling
Author: Michael HeazlePublisher: Ewha Womans University Press
ISBN: 9780295986050
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Examines how the International Whaling Commission policy dramatically shifted from furthering the interests of whaling nations to eventually banning all commercial whaling.
Scientific Uncertainty and the Politics of Whaling
Author: Michael HeazlePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295802006
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this intriguing study, Michael Heazle examines how International Whaling Commission (IWC) policy dramatically shifted from furthering the interests of whaling nations to eventually banning all commercial whaling. Focusing on the internal workings of a single organization, Heazle explores the impact of political and economic imperatives on the production and interpretation of scientific research and advice. Central to his work are the epistemological problems encountered in the production of �truth.� Science does not produce incontestable facts that can be expected to lead to consensus decisions; rather, the problematic nature of knowledge itself allows for various interpretations of data depending on the interests of those at the table. It is precisely the nature of scientific knowledge, Heazle argues, that has made uncertainty a tool in service of political objectives. When scientific advice to whaling nations could not with absolute certainty declare whaling practices a threat to stocks, those IWC members with substantial investments of political and economic capital used this uncertainty to reject a reduction in quotas. As perceptions of whaling changed - with the collapse of Antarctic whaling stocks, further diminishing economic returns, and public opinion turning against commercial whaling -- uncertainty switched sides. Nonwhaling members in the IWC, a majority by the late 1970s, claimed that because scientific data could not prove that commercial whaling was sustainable, hunting should stop. Uncertainty was used to protect the resource rather than the industry. That science cannot be an impartial determinant in policy-making decisions does not render it useless. But Heazle�s analysis does suggest that without understanding the role of scientific uncertainty - and the political purposes for which it is used - international cooperation on wildlife management and broader issues will continue to become bogged down in arguments over whose science is correct.
Report of the International Whaling Commission
Author: International Whaling CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The International Whaling Commission
Author: Elizabeth Haven LinenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
List of Scientific Committee Documents from 1960 to the Present
Author: Uncertainty in Policy Making
Author: Michael HeazlePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136530320
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Uncertainty in Policy Making explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. It argues that conventional notions of rational, evidence-based policy making - hailed by governments and organisations across the world as the only way to make good policy - is an impossible aim in highly complex and uncertain environments; the blind pursuit of such a 'rational' goal is in fact irrational in a world of competing values and interests. The book centres around two high-profile and important case studies: the Iraq war and climate change policy in the US, UK and Australia. Based on three years' research, including interviews with experts such as Hans Blix, Paul Pillar, and Brian Jones, these two case studies show that the treatment of uncertainty issues in specialist advice is largely determined by how well the advice fits with or contradicts the policy goals and orientation of the policy elite. Instead of allowing the debates to be side-tracked by arguments over whose science or expert advice is 'more right', we must accept that uncertainty in complex issues is unavoidable and recognise the values and interests that lie at the heart of the issues. The book offers a 'hedging' approach which will enable policy makers to manage rather than eliminate uncertainty.
Report of the Commission - International Whaling Commission
Author: International Whaling CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Additions to The List of Scientific Committee Documents from 1960 to the Present
Author: International Whaling Commission. Scientific CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Review of the 34th International Whaling Commission Meeting
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International OrganizationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description