Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof
ISBN: 9781501717581
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Environmentalism -- Social aspects;

Ordinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on which little scientific evidence exists to back activists' claims. Should we then dismiss such claims as spurious? Or should we side with citizens against the polluters? Uncertain...


Sylvia Noble Tesh is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Political Science Department at Yale University. She is the author of Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease-Prevention Policy.

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