Providing expert scientific advice on the Antarctic environment
It is hard to divorce most human activities, including science, completely from politics. Politics is about perceived certainty whilst science is about doubt – they make strange bedfellows. Politicians detest probabilities whilst scientists abhor the absolute. Nowhere is the relationship between pol...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0954102094000015 2024-03-03T08:38:49+00:00 Providing expert scientific advice on the Antarctic environment Walton, D.W.H. 1994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102094000015 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102094000015 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antarctic Science volume 6, issue 1, page 1-1 ISSN 0954-1020 1365-2079 Geology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography journal-article 1994 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954102094000015 2024-02-08T08:36:01Z It is hard to divorce most human activities, including science, completely from politics. Politics is about perceived certainty whilst science is about doubt – they make strange bedfellows. Politicians detest probabilities whilst scientists abhor the absolute. Nowhere is the relationship between politics and science more publicly developed than in the Antarctic Treaty System. In the only continent devoted to peace and science it might be supposed that, after more than thirty years, the role of science would be both more robust and more pivotal in decision-making than elsewhere in the world. So it appears at present but will it remain so? Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Science Cambridge University Press Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Science 6 1 1 1 |
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It is hard to divorce most human activities, including science, completely from politics. Politics is about perceived certainty whilst science is about doubt – they make strange bedfellows. Politicians detest probabilities whilst scientists abhor the absolute. Nowhere is the relationship between politics and science more publicly developed than in the Antarctic Treaty System. In the only continent devoted to peace and science it might be supposed that, after more than thirty years, the role of science would be both more robust and more pivotal in decision-making than elsewhere in the world. So it appears at present but will it remain so? |
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