If post-normal science is the solution, what is the problem?: The politics of activist environmental science

Science Technology and Human Values

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-412

  Wesselink, Anna ^a   Hoppe, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

boundary work; frame reflection; policy making; post normal science; power; problem typology; science policy interface

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953676600     PISSN: 01622439     EISSN: 15528251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0162243910385786     Document Type: Article

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