Greening chemistry: Emerging epistemic political tensions in California and the United States

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 460-478

  Iles, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; chemicals; epistemic politics; extended peer review; green chemistry; socially robust knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876716198     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662511404306     Document Type: Article

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