Two science communities and coastal wetlands policy

Thesis/Dissertation · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5656734

LeVine, J B

This study compares the attitudes of academic and government wetlands scientists about wetlands science and policy. Analysis of one thousand seven hundred responses to Delphi-type questions posed to twenty California scientists on a wide range of issues about California coastal wetlands found significant differences between academic and government scientists about wetlands definitions, threats to wetlands, wetlands policies, wetlands health, and wetlands mitigation strategies. These differences were consistent with descriptive models of political sociology developed by D. Price and C.P. Snow and with normative models of the philosophy of science developed in the renaissance by F. Bacon and R. Descartes. Characteristics, preferences, and personality attributes consistent with group functions and roles have been described in these models. These findings have serious implications for policy. When academic and government wetlands scientists act as advisors to the major parties in land use conflicts, basic differences in perspective have contributed to costly contention over the future use of wetlands.

• OSTI ID: 5656734
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
29 ENERGY PLANNING
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CALIFORNIA
WETLANDS
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
PUBLIC POLICY
POLITICAL ASPECTS
SURVEYS
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
ECOSYSTEMS
FEDERAL REGION IX
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
NORTH AMERICA
USA
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