Knowledge uncertainties in environmental conflicts:How the mussel fishery controversy in the Dutch Wadden Sea became depoliticised
Policy-makers and scientists often expect that controversies in public policy can be solved by gathering more knowledge, even though this linear model of expertise is widely criticised in social studies of science. To shed more light on this expectation, the role of scientific uncertainties in controversies on mussel fishery in the Dutch Wadden Sea (1990–2016) is investigated. The analysis shows that mussel fishery regulation decisions were primarily based on government authority, not on scientific knowledge. Expectations of policy-makers and scientists on conflict resolution by more research... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | R. Floor , J , (Kris) van Koppen , C S A & Tatenhove , J P M V 2019 , ' Knowledge uncertainties in environmental conflicts : How the mussel fishery controversy in the Dutch Wadden Sea became depoliticised ' , Environmental Politics , vol. 28 , no. 7 , pp. 1236-1258 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1546561 |
Schlagwörter: | Depoliticisation / Wadden Sea / knowledge expectations / knowledge uncertainties / mussel fishery / science-policy interactions |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26690980 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/736ab83f-36c2-4c34-bd31-c40923a2626b |