Scientific uncertainty and the International Whaling Commission:an alternative perspective on the use of science in policy making

• Published in: Marine Policy
• Main Author: Heazle, Michael
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Griffith; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/5320; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2003.10.001

Prior to the decline of the whaling industry in the 1960s, scientific uncertainty issues often were raised in the International Whaling Commission to argue against lower Antarctic quotas. But by the1970s, many of the same uncertainty issues were being reinterpreted by former whaling nations (and oth...