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A Pragmatist Orientation for the Social Sciences in Climate Policy How to Make Integrated Economic Assessments Serve Society /

While economic and other social science expertise is indispensable for successful public policy-making regarding global climate change, social scientists face trade-offs between the scientific credibility, policy-relevance, and legitimacy of their policy advice. From a philosophical perspective, thi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kowarsch, Martin (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 323
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: The Key Challenge of Integrated Economic Advice for Climate Policy
  • 2. The Need for an Integrated Economic Assessment of Climate Policy Options
  • 3. Fundamental Perils for Scientific Assessments
  • Part II: A Philosophical Evaluation of Normative Science-Policy Models
  • 4. Prevalent Action-Guiding Models of Scientific Expertise in Policy
  • 5. Fact/Value Conflation and the Danger of the Traditional Models
  • 6. Pragmatism: Objectivity Despite Fact/Value Entanglement
  • Part III: A Critical Look at the IPCC's Economics
  • 7. Understanding and Evaluating the IAM-based Economics
  • 8. Ethics in Climate Economics: Balance or Bias?
  • 9. Trust Them? The Epistemic Quality of Climate Economics
  • 10. An Evaluation of the IPCC WG III Assessments
  • Part IV: Towards Improved Integrated Economic Assessments for Climate Policy
  • 11. Elements of a Guideline for Future Integrated Economic Assessments of the IPCC
  • 12. Potential Implications of the IPCC Reform: Deliberative Learning and Difficulties of In-depth Policy Assessment. .