Changing the Atmosphere or Public Private Policy Partnerships

Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance

Author: Clark Miller

In recent years, Earth systems science has advanced rapidly, helping to transform climate change and other planetary risks into major political issues. Changing the Atmosphere strengthens our understanding of this important link between expert knowledge and environmental governance. In so doing, it illustrates how the emerging field of science and technology studies can inform our understanding of the human dimensions of global environmental change.

Incorporating historical, sociological, and philosophical approaches, Changing the Atmosphere presents detailed empirical studies of climate science and its uptake into public policy. Topics include the scientific, political, and social processes involved in the creation of scientific knowledge about climate change; the historical and contemporary role of expert knowledge in creating and perpetuating policy concern about climate change; and the place of science in institutions of global environmental governance such as the World Meteorological Organization, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Together, the essays demonstrate fundamental connections between the science and politics of planet Earth. In the struggle to create sustainable forms of environmental governance, they indicate, a necessary first step is to understand how communities achieve credible, authoritative representations of nature.

Contributors:

Paul N. Edwards, Dale Jamieson, Sheila Jasanoff, Chunglin Kwa, Clark Miller, Stephen D. Norton, Stephen H. Schneider, Simon Shackley, Frederick Suppe.

Table of Contents:

	Series Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
1	Introduction: The Globalization of Climate Science and Climate Politics	1
2	Representing the Global Atmosphere: Computer Models, Data, and Knowledge about Climate Change	31
3	Why Atmospheric Modeling Is Good Science	67
4	Epistemic Lifestyles in Climate Change Modeling	107
5	The Rise and Fall of Weather Modification: Changes in American Attitudes Toward Technology, Nature, and Society	135
6	Scientific Internationalism in American Foreign Policy: The Case of Meteorology, 1947-1958	167
7	Self-Governance and Peer Review in Science-for-Policy: The Case of the IPCC Second Assessment Report	219
8	Challenges in the Application of Science to Global Affairs: Contingency, Trust, and Moral Order	247
9	Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice	287
10	Image and Imagination: The Formation of Global Environmental Consciousness	309
	References	339
	Index	371

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Public-Private Policy Partnerships

Author: Pauline Rosenau Rosenau Vaillancourt

Partnerships between the public and private sectors to fulfill public functions are on the increase at every level of government. In the United States and Canada they currently operate in most policy areas, and in the U.S. trial programs are planned by the Internal Revenue Service, the Census Bureau, and the Social Security Administration.

Partnerships represent the second generation of efforts to bring competitive market discipline to bear on government operations. Unlike the first generation of privatizing efforts, partnering involves sharing both responsibility and financial risk. In the best situations, the strengths of each sector maximize overall performance. In these cases, partnering institutionalizes collaborative arrangements in which the differences between the sectors become blurred.

This is the first book to evaluate public-private partnerships in a broad range of policy areas. The chapters focus on education, health care and health policy, welfare, prisons, the criminal justice system, environmental policy, energy policy, technology research and development, and transportation. The contributors come from a number of fields, including political science, education, law, economics, and public health. They merge experiential and social-scientific findings to examine how partnerships perform, to identify the conditions in which they work best, and to determine when they might be expected to fail.

Contributors:

Ronald J. Daniels, James A. Dunn, Jr., Sheldon Kamieniecki, Harry M. Levin, Stephen H. Linder, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Jr., Mark Carl Rom, Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Walter A. Rosenbaum, Anne Larason Schneider, David Shafie,Julie Silvers, Michael S. Sparer, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Michael J. Trebilcock, Scott J. Wallsten.